(Taipei/Washington/Beijing Comprehensive News) Taiwan and the United States announced simultaneously to complete the first batch of negotiations between the 21st Century Trade Initiative of the United States and Taiwan.Taiwan officially described that this is the most complete bilateral trade agreement since the Taiwan -US interruption in 1979. However, the US media evaluated that the agreement only set up broad standards and did not deal with truly tricky issues.
The official website of the Economic and Trade Office of the Taiwan Executive Yuan was announced on Friday (May 19) that five of the 12 issues of the 21st Century Trade Initiative of the United States and Taiwan have completed the negotiations. The consensus between the two parties will be signed in the next few weeks.
The above announcement describes that the agreement is not only the most complete trade agreement signed by Taiwan and the United States since 1979. It also represents an important milestone that represents the Taiwan economic and trade system that meets the international high standards.An important step of trade agreement.
Taiwan and the United States announced the launch of this negotiation in June 2022.The five major areas of the first batch of agreements include the convenient trade, good legal operations, domestic rules and regulations of the service industry, anti -corruption and small and medium -sized enterprises.
U.S. trade representative Dai Qi said through a statement that this represents the important step of the United States Taiwan in strengthening economic relations.
However, according to the Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal analysis, the agreement does not deal with difficult problems such as tariffs, but to reduce the procedures for exporting to Taiwan to Taiwan, such as allowing electronic declaration and online payment taxes, so that American companies can take more moreBring multiple products to Taiwan.Moreover, the trade barriers processed by the agreement are only "obstacles to solve".
On the other hand, Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mainland China, expressed serious dissatisfaction and resolutely opposed to Taiwan and the United States to complete the above negotiations and strengthen trade links.
Wang Wenbin said that China has always resolutely opposed the official exchanges between the establishment of diplomatic relations with the country and Taiwan, including any agreement with sovereign meaning and official nature. He also accused the United States of violation of a commitment to maintain unofficial relations with Taiwan.
