Taiwan Foreign Ministry: Taiwan seeks more creative methods to improve cooperation wit

Taiwan has been looking forward to negotiating with the European Union (BIA) with the European Union for many years, but has made limited progress to this day.Taiwan ’s Foreign Ministry responded on Tuesday (March 7) that in the case of BIA's progress, Taiwan is seeking other creative practices to enhance economic and trade cooperation with the EU.

According to the Taiwan Liberty Times report, the European Union said in September 2017 that she was preparing to start a BIA negotiation with Taiwan.Formally start negotiation pre -operation.

Regarding the progress of the Taiwan -Europe BIA, the European Parliament has urged the European Union many times in recent years.It is pointed out that the impact assessment of BIA is urgently needed to launch BIA, public consultation and scope definition work.In January of the European Parliament in January this year, in the two annual implementation report resolutions of common diplomatic and security policy (CFSP) and common security and defense policies (CSDP), it also continued to call for the launch of BIA pre -operation.

Why did the Tae -Europe BIA make no progress?Yao Jinxiang, the director of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, said at a regular press conference on Tuesday that Taiwan and the European Union held a fixed economic and trade dialogue. The last time was at the end of last year, Taiwan also had regular economic and trade dialogue with about 18 member states in the EU.On these occasions, the Taiwanese side will propose the Tori European BIA topic.The European Parliament has repeatedly called on the European Executive Committee to launch BIA operations as soon as possible, and the Taiwanese side also actively promoted the EU and Taiwan to negotiate.

Yao Jinxiang pointed out that at the same time, the Taiwanese side is also seeking other more creative practices to enhance economic and trade cooperation with the EU. Special about the security of the supply chain, that is, in the case of BIA's progress.The integration of regulations, tax cooperation and supply chain security promotes partial cooperation.