Comments: It is not a good thing to take a step in the normalization of cross -strait

Source: Taiwan United Daily

In the past, when the cross -strait exchanges are active and the business group visits Beijing, the mainland of China has thrown out the Ministry of Commerce to conduct trade barriers to Taiwan's trade restrictions on mainland trade, and throw nuclear bombs to Taiwan's industrial and commercial circles.The mainland should require Taiwan to act in accordance with the WTO rules.Use the law to replace the previous political operations, which is a big step on both sides of the strait. After all, the two sides of the strait must work in accordance with international rules.

For a long time, Taiwan has traded discrimination on a number of products on the mainland and violated the WTO specification.This unilateral discrimination, Taiwan naturally loses losses, and the mainland has a position to propose. This problem exists from the flat and Malaysia era, but at this time, Beijing proposed that it was quite targeted.Taiwanese netizens believe that after the mainland's military and political encirclement, the "economic blockade" battle was fighting; while mainland netizens believed that this was the "poor Taiwan" strategy began to implement;Weapons deal with China.

Investigation of trade barriers in the mainland may resort to WTO, and WTO will also send investigators to investigate.In this way, the original cross -strait issue is facing the risk of internationalization.The plaintiff and the defendant are two different tariffs. This is the most unwilling to see the "two China" and "one middle and one" in the mainland.Acknowledge of entity ".In the past, Beijing has hoped that trade with Taiwan can be treated with "domestic law" or cross -strait agreement.

In other words, the mainland's abnormal trade on Taiwan now does not want to swallow, and does not play politics to change laws.This will be fully presented in the WTO survey. Taiwan does have discrimination against mainland goods, which proves that the DPP government in power does manipulate "anti -China" and replaces normal international trade norms and WTO standards with conscious form.Essence

As far as Taiwan is concerned, once the cross -strait trade is normalized, many "gray" interest chains will disappear according to the WTO rules.For example, in the past, many Taiwanese businessmen have taken the "small three links" channels and imported goods. There may be "red envelopes" culture in this, depending on the face of mainland customs, Taiwan -related organs or logistics platforms.

From the perspective of the mainland, after the normalization of cross -strait trade, it is more convincing to attract foreign capital.Foreign capital will see that after joining the WTO 20 years, China will finally follow the principles of normal trade in the WTO. It has the guarantee of real rule of law and is more attractive for foreign investment and foreign companies.In 2018, the Sino -US trade war started, and the outside world once discovered that after joining the WTO, mainland China was benefited from free trade, but there were many violations of the WTO rules.

Faced with possible WTO surveys, what Taiwan should do is actively responding to the lawsuit.Including industry associations and major leading companies, they may become "witnesses".Therefore, from now on, we have to organize related lawyers and industry associations to actively face it.

If the mainland is unilaterally determined and then traded retaliation, tariffs to Taiwan ’s products, etc., the harm to the Taiwan industry will inevitably be very great.In the case of dependence on Taiwan's economy and the economic proportion of the mainland, and cross -strait trade accounts for 40 %, if the government cannot get a solution or negotiate with the other side, it will inevitably lose confidence in the industrial and commercial community.

Many people mentioned that the prospect of ECFA after the investigation was unpredictable.In fact, these discrimination against mainland goods has nothing to do with ECFA, and there is no such thing in ECFA's provisions.However, the Malaysian government that governed at that time acknowledged that the "1992 Consensus" made cross -strait negotiations have a substantial political foundation. Even discrimination against the mainland could not be true.After the Tsai government came to power, on the one hand, he bigly hit the "anti -China -China Baozai", and on the other hand, he was worried that the mainland stopped ECFA unilaterally. This was very contradictory.

In any case, the mainland does not care about the face, and no longer uses the logic of thinking on both sides of the strait. Instead, it must be a good thing for the two sides of the strait.Originally, unilateral discrimination should not be expected to last long.