Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/01
By: Liao Yu-yang and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, March 1 (CNA) Trade remedy measures introduced in a recent report highlighting
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the U.S. administration’s trade policy priorities have caused a distortion in global trade, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Thursday.
The measures include several anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations against products from Taiwan, which have impacted Taiwan’s exports to the United States, the ministry said.
In its “2018 Trade Policy Agenda and 2017 Annual Report” filed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) a day earlier, the U.S. administration expresses concern about Taiwan’s agricultural policies, which it says “are not based upon science.”
In the document, the USTR highlights a request that Taiwan lift its partial ban on imports of U.S. beef and pork, including pork containing residue of the leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine. [FULL STORY]
