Taiwan: To Start China Trade Pact Talks After December Meeting
TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Taiwan and China will begin formal talks on a trade
agreement after the two sides complete the next round of cross-strait
negotiations in December, Minister of Economic Affairs Yen-Shiang Shih said
Wednesday.
The two sides expect to sign the trade pact, which aims at eliminating tariffs
on goods, in the fifth-round of meetings between Taiwan's semiofficial Straits
Exchange Foundation and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan
Straits under President Ma Ying-jeou's administration, Shih said when briefing
legislators on the issue.
The meeting is likely to be held in the first half of 2010, Shih said.
-By Perris Lee Choon Siong and Jessie Ho, Dow Jones Newswires; 88622 502-2557;
perris.lee@dowjones.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
11-18-090044ET
Copyright (c) 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
|