# Bidding in Japan as a foreign company

> Whether a company established in the EU may bid for public contracts in Japan, the instrument that decides it, and the channels it would register on.

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## The WTO procurement agreement

Yes, for the procurement Japan listed. As a party to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, Japan committed to treat suppliers from the other parties, the EU among them, no less favourably than its own. What that covers is not the whole state: each party files annexes naming the buyers, the goods and services, and the value thresholds it opens, and anything outside those annexes is not covered by the agreement at all.

Instrument: WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, party since 1996.

## Where you would register

- Chotatsu Portal (https://www.p-portal.go.jp/): Japan's unified government procurement system.
- Government Procurement Information (https://information1.gov-procurement.go.jp/en/?L=en&tc=1): The official government procurement information site.

## A right to bid is not a notice

8 sources publish public procurement in Japan and 3 of them are read by a dedicated connector. Registering on the national portal and stopping there watches one address out of 8. Every source: https://trinta.ai/government-tenders/japan

This is not legal advice. Trade agreements grant what their annexes list, and a particular procedure's documents can require local registration, an agent or local content that no agreement overrides.

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