Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/11
By: Chu Tse-wei and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Nov. 11 (CNA) Taiwan’s leading policy think tank said Saturday that the country

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should seek inclusion in a free-trade deal that 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries have decided to revive.

On the sidelines of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) summit, ministers from the 11 nations remaining in the TPP said Saturday that they have decided to move forward with a new regional trade arrangement called the “Comprehensive Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership” (CPTPP).

The proposed new deal maintains much of the core elements of the original TPP, which is precisely why Taiwan should attempt to join, said Liu Meng-chun (劉孟俊), director of the first research division of the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER).
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