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Japan: 60 days to comment on a draft rule

Japan gives a median of 60 days to comment on a draft technical regulation, measured across 1,220 filings at the WTO carrying a comment deadline, 2007–2026.

The window is the only point at which a foreign brand can put anything on the record before the rule is fixed.

90 of a possible 90Tier B, systematic first-party observation. Nothing at this tier is allowed past 90, however good it looks.

Verified September 9, 2026Rechecked every 365 days, next by September 9, 2027.

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Held since January 1, 2007How the market is physically or commercially arranged. The earliest date we are willing to say this held. It may well have been true before that; we do not backdate a record past the evidence we have read. Supported, version 1.

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Recomputing the median over every WTO filing by this market that carries both a distribution date and a comment deadline returns a median outside 53 to 67 days.

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Tier Bregulationn = 1220
World Trade Organization: ePing SPS & TBT notification register
1,220 WTO filings with a comment deadline, counted in the register on 2026-09-09.
Read 2026-09-09 · Open government · about this source

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v1createdAugust 10, 2026
Derived from the comment-window family on 2026-08-10.

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“Japan: 60 days to comment on a draft rule”, The Orbt Market Index 0.1.0, entry omr:jp:regulatory:comment-window, retrieved September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/jp--regulatory--comment-window. Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129

Orbt, "Japan: 60 days to comment on a draft rule," Orbt Market Index, entry omr:jp:regulatory:comment-window, verified September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/jp--regulatory--comment-window.

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