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China
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.
Korea has suggested that major agricultural products and fisheries should be excluded from a free trade agreement with China but Beijing reportedly turned the proposal down.
The new ambassador, a former chairman of Itochu Corp., acknowledged that an FTA with China would face strong opposition from farmers but said Japan needs to strengthen the international competitiveness of its protected agricultural products.
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.
SA will not pursue a conventional free-trade agreement with China as this is not in the interests of the country, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
