Japan and the EU hold a group to engage in free trade! Is this the opposite of the United States?

Japan and the EU hold a group to engage in free trade! Is this the opposite of the United States?: all major Japanese media were paying attention to the same news event. The keywords were concentrated on the words against the United States, free trade and wide-area economic and trade circle. EU and Japan signed the Economic Partnership Agreement - EPA, the largest free trade agreement to date