The Taiwan MAC criticized Mainland China on Wednesday (September 18) to treat trade as weapons, and pointed out that all goodwill in mainland China had political purposes and could be canceled at any time.
The MAC will respond to the mainland to stop 34 import tariff policies for Taiwan's agricultural products exempt from imports.
In the press release of the MAC, the MAC expressed regret on the mainland's move, and pointed out that the land side as the economic force against Taiwan again and harming the interests of farmers and fishermen on both sides of the strait will only cause Taiwan's farmers and fishermen and the public to dislike the disgust of the people and the public.The long -term development of cross -strait relations."Due to political reasons, the political operations of Taiwan's pressure on Taiwan have been used for pressure and intimidation, which will not help the maintenance of cross -strait relations."
It is why trade is used as a weapon and all preferential measures are used as a coercion. This is why the Taiwan government has repeatedly reminded that it cannot rely on the so -called mainland goodwill.
The MAC also said that in recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Taiwan Agriculture has actively counseled the transformation and upgrading of Taiwan's agricultural products, continued to open up the multi -export market, and reduce the dependence of Taiwan's agricultural products to the single market in mainland China and safeguard the rights of farmers.
Mainland China officially announced earlier that since Wednesday (September 25), it has stopped implementing 34 agricultural products such as fresh fruits, vegetables, and aquatic products that are native to Taiwan.Import tariffs on agricultural products shall be implemented in accordance with the current relevant regulations.
When the Office of the State Council of the State Council announced the above decision, it pointed out that Taiwan's unilateral face to take discrimination and restrictions on the exports of mainland products in Taiwan, which seriously hindered cross -strait economic and trade cooperation.
The Taiwan MAC refers to the one -sidedly determination of Taiwan's trade measures to constitute a trade barrier, and take revenge on Taiwan, which has violated the World Trade Organization (WTO) specifications.
