A new round of talks on a trade-in-goods agreement between Taiwan and China is expected to make a leap by shifting discussions to substantive issues from technical matters.
Sources from the economics ministry made the comments on Saturday. They said Taiwan’s negotiators will focus on acquiring preferential tariff status for Taiwanese exporters in four major industries – flat panels, machine tools, autos, and petrochemical products.
The 10th round of talks on the cross-strait trade-in-goods agreement is scheduled to kick off in Beijing next Tuesday and run through Thursday.
Director-general of the Bureau of Foreign Trade, Yang Jen-ni, will head the Taiwanese delegation to the Beijing talks.
Talks on the agreement were suspended for some time due to the Sunflower student-led movement that took place in March last year. At the time demonstrators occupied the legislature for more than three weeks to protest against what they saw as a lack of transparency in trade negotiations between Taiwan and China.