Society: Taiwan ’s trade negotiations on the U.S. trade are practicing and taking int

Source: Taiwan Industrial and Commercial Times Society

After a year of negotiations, the "Taiwan -American 21st Century Trade Initiative" reached the first batch of agreements on May 19th.The convenience of management and trade, good legal operations, domestic rules and regulations in the service industry, SMEs and anti -corruption areas will have five areas. In the future, it will further deepen Taiwan -US trade relations and strengthen the US trade exchanges.That is, Taiwan -US enterprises can export more goods and services to each other under the convenient pipeline and transparent system to jointly create more investment and business opportunities.

Although the first agreement was promoted to break through the new era of the most important relationship since the interruption of Taimei in 1979, it was accused of being the most meaningful milestone to promote the long -term economic friendship of Taimei.However, while affirming that the government actively strives to overcome the dilemma, we believe that the goal that this agreement wants to pursue is not only the "metaphysical" relationship that Taiwan and the United States deepen and strengthen in the "politics", but must be in the "economy".It presents social expectations more substantial and specific "metaphysical" interests.That is, observing the content of the agreement makes people feel that the substantial interests that Taiwan may gain is quite vague.

In terms of the essence of the agreement, Taiwan has long been entangled by political factors for a long time. In addition to being very difficult to sign the free trade agreement (FTA), it is quite slow to participate in regional economic integration.According to data statistics, the current FTA exports of Taiwan are only 12.08 %, not only 73.58 % of the competitors in South Korea, but also not as 50.80 % of important partners in Japan, even lower than 34.02 % of mainland China (have not yet been included in the area where it took effect in 2022,Comprehensive Economic Partner Agreement, RCEP).Therefore, if you want to deliberately promote the Taiwan -US trade initiative as a breakthrough in Taiwan -US relations, then claim that the "bilateral trade agreement" (BTA) can be reached, it is actually a lack of common sense of free trade agreement and only in the internal publicity.

In fact, the United States has the "Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in July 2021. If there is no new authorization of Congress, the government has no right to negotiate FTA negotiations with other countries or regions.It is an important obstacle to the signing of a free trade agreement in Taiwan.In fact, since the Trump administration has promoted the "US priority" policy, the US foreign trade policy has begun to transform and no longer participate in the integration of large regional economic economic integration.) And require Japan and South Korea to sign for FTA to expand the output of its agricultural and animal husbandry products.This means that even though the Taiwan -US trade initiative mentioned the mutual benefit of economic fields, it seems that it is not the most concerned BTA in Taiwan, but the chip industry cooperation between the sword finger in the United States.

As far as the content is concerned, the "good legal operation" covered in the first batch of agreements is focused on the principle of perfection, transparency, and impact on SMEs by the government.The domestic regulations of the service industry are focused on, and the government issued a license procedure must be based on the principles of reasonable, objective, fairness, and independence. In addition, cooperation related to "SMEs" increase business opportunities and promote the growth of small and medium -sized enterprises on both sides.Although its intention is good, this "metaphysical" extensive discussion is in fact, in fact, there is no innovation, and it is difficult to "metaphysical" to obtain substantial benefits.

In other words, under the premise of fairness and mutual benefit, the two parties negotiating the free trade agreement between the two parties are "giving up."However, the first batch of agreements reached by the U.S. Trade Initiative of the Viewing Terrace, such as: The principle of setting the regulations must be improved and transparent, and the United States can ask Taiwan to comply. Can Taiwan be required to cooperate compared to Taiwan?Furthermore, anti -corruption and bribery are a part that Taiwan and the United States must implement in economic cooperation. It does not need to be worked for the trade agreement through the signing of the trade agreement. From the perspective of legislation, it is undoubtedly explaining that Taiwan ’s negotiations are in negotiations.No house, completely in line with the US requirements.

Obviously, the government is anxious to sign the first batch of Taiwan -US trade agreements first, which seems to mean that it has continued frustration in the face of diplomacy, and the pressure of rotation in governance next year will be used as a performance."Agreement", gorgeous turning into an unprecedented political considerations for the internal preparations to be referred to in the United States and the United States.Before that, the government cooperated with the United States requirements, from the opening of the Lickebamine American pig, to the investment in the US manufacturing back to invest, to buy designated weapons in the United States, and abide by the technology of US control to China.The breakthrough is essentially the upgrade of Taiwan's international status.

After all, the level of international economy or trade involves extremely wide and complicated. Taiwan cannot successfully sign the free trade agreement or participate in regional economic integration. In addition to international political factors and the entanglement of cross -strait relations, it cannot be ignored.It is relatively weak with experience, and the preparation of industrial communication and legal preparation is not enough to prepare enough beforehand, making it difficult for the negotiations on the US trade agreement to be in place.After signing the first batch of agreements in Taiwan and the United States, we are about to welcome the subsequent seven issues negotiations. We expect that the government does not need to ignore the industrial substantial interests for pursuit of political considerations, and at the same time, we should not neglect the equivalent relationship between the two parties.