Taiwan and the United States intends to hold a closed -door meeting on the second stag

After the Taiwan -American 21st Century Trade Initiative Act was officially transferred to the White House in the United States, Taiwan and the United States will hold closed -door meetings on the second phase of the trade initiative on Friday (August 4).

Comprehensive Taiwan United Daily and Central News Agency reported that Deng Zhenzhong, a member of the Taiwan Executive Yuan, will have a video talks with Bi Anqi, the US Deputy Trade Representative Bi Anqi.

Deng Zhenzhong said that this meeting is a routine meeting, "Everyone talks to the phone and talks about the progress of both ends."He will also tell Bi Anqi that the Taiwan Legislative Yuan has passed the first batch of agreements through the 21st century trade initiative of Taiwan.

With the end of the first phase of the 21st century trade initiative of Taime and the United States, Deng Zhenzhong revealed that the closed -door meeting on Friday will discuss the second phase of negotiations, listen to the other party's opinions, including schedule and work arrangements.The actual time and place of negotiations in the second stage of the second stage has not yet been determined, but it is hoped that "the faster the better", Taiwan has been prepared to be full.

The second stage of the second phase of the Taiwan -US trade initiative includes environmental protection, agriculture, and workers. Deng Zhenzhong said that Taiwan and the United States have previously held several video conferences.The issue, the degree of labor protection, and the goals expected by the United States.

The US Trade Congress (USTR) also confirmed on Thursday (3rd) that Bi Anqi will hold a closed -door meeting with Deng Zhenzhong on Friday.According to the Taiwan Representative Office in the United States, the visual information of the conference was mainly exchanged for routine business opinions, and the content was not public.

After the 21st Century Trade initiative of Taimei officially launched on June 1 last year, after one year of negotiation negotiations, the first batch of agreements signed at the Washington Headquarters of the Taiwan Association (AIT) at the United States Association (AIT) on June 1 this year.The first batch of agreements include five issues such as customs administration and trade, good legal operations, service industry rules, anti -corruption, and small and medium -sized enterprises. The next stage will discuss three issues: environmental protection, labor, and agriculture.

It is reported that because the scope of the second stage of discussion is larger, it is expected that the scale of the negotiation team between the two parties will also be larger than the last time, especially for environmental protection, labor and agriculture.Very important.

The first batch of agreement implementation bills proposed by the two courts of the United States Senate for the two House of Representatives were approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate on June 21 and July 18, respectively.The bill was sent to the White House after being signed by the US House President McCarthy, and the US President Biden was officially effective after the signing of the US President Biden.