Taiwan Wants to Push Bounds of US Trade Deal to Beat Isolation
- Taipei’s chief trade negotiator seeks to expand US trade talks
- Island faces challenges from China in effort to join CPTPP
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Taiwan’s top trade negotiator signaled a desire to expand Taipei’s initial agreement with Washington into one that more closely resembles a free trade deal, as the export-dependent economy works to counter China’s efforts at isolating it.
The island’s trade officials are talking with their US counterparts about broadening the scope of their current arrangement reached earlier this year, John Deng, the head of Taiwan’s Office of Trade Negotiations, said in an interview in Taipei on Friday.