11-Aug-2010
MCOT
Nearly half of South Korean companies are worried that the new trade pact between China and Taiwan could negatively affect their businesses.
9-Aug-2010
Taiwan and Singapore announced a plan last week to explore the feasibility of a bilateral economic cooperation agreement on a par with a free trade agreement (FTA).
8-Aug-2010
Local society in general has hailed the imminent start of talks with Singapore on signing an economic cooperation agreement as a breakthrough for Taiwan in its pursuit of better foreign trade relations after decades of being overshadowed by China.
8-Aug-2010
Taiwan is eyeing Vietnam and Indonesia as potential free trade agreement (FTA) partners after announcing earlier this week that it had agreed with Singapore to explore the feasibility of a free trade deal, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Saturday.
6-Aug-2010
CNA
Trade negotiators from Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs have started talks with Japanese economic and trade officials with the aim of promoting economic and trade integration between the two countries
5-Aug-2010
Tax-News.com
It has been announced that Taiwan and Singapore will initiate talks later this year on the feasibility of signing a bilateral economic cooperation agreement under the framework of the World Trade Organization. It was said that the trade agreement would not be called an FTA in order to avoid giving any problem to China.
3-Aug-2010
RTI
Japanese industries are very interested in the recently signed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement between Taiwan and China as a way to enter China.
3-Aug-2010
CNA
Taiwan’s top envoy to the European Union and Belgium called Monday for a free trade agreement between Taiwan and the EU, saying that the ground has already been laid with the recent signing of a trade pact with China.
28-Jul-2010
AFP
China may use a trade pact with Taiwan to push for its political goal of reunification, the island’s parliament warned in a report on Wednesday.
22-Jul-2010
Bloomberg
“We also hope to sign FTA with countries in South East Asia and even Japan,” Taiwan’s top negotiator with China, Chiang Pin-kung, said.
12-Jul-2010
AFP
The United States has ruled out a free trade agreement with Taiwan amid a dispute over beef imports, days after the island signed a sweeping accord with longtime adversary China.
8-Jul-2010
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Shear said Wednesday that Taiwan, as a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) , is eligible to negotiate free trade agreements (FTA) with other WTO member states.
7-Jul-2010
WFN
Opening the floodgates to Chinese products will lead to mass
unemployment among Aborigines and pose great challenges to ordinary Taiwanese farmers as well, say Aborigine pastors in Taiwan.
5-Jul-2010
The Presidential Office accused the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of twisting President Ma Ying-jeou’s remarks and stressed that the president has never made the statement that lawmakers cannot review the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) that Taiwan just signed with China.
4-Jul-2010
China Post
Taiwan’s opposition party the DPP is demanding that individual clauses of the ECFA be reviewed one by one at committee meetings where lawmakers could revise them.
3-Jul-2010
Despite a partisan dispute over procedural issues, the Executive Yuan hopes that the legislature will pass the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China by late August to facilitate its implementation Jan. 1, 2011, an official said Saturday.
1-Jul-2010
Taiwan has a chance to sign free trade agreements (FTAs) or similar economic cooperation agreements with its trade partners after the signing of a trade pact with China, President Ma Ying-jeou said Thursday.
29-Jun-2010
FT
The agreement that negotiators signed in the Chinese city of Chongqing represents the first phase in trade liberalisation rather than a comprehensive free trade agreement. It also has China doing most of the economic opening in the initial round.
28-Jun-2010
CNA
Singaporean firm Oceanus, the world’s leading producer of abalone, is counting on Taiwan’s trade deal with Beijing to expand in China.
27-Jun-2010
Taipei Times
"How will Taiwan survive if our export-oriented industries relocate to China and our domestic market-oriented companies are replaced because of competition from Chinese products?" asks the head of Taiwan Solidarity Union.