Chamber official: TIFA talks offer a ‘springboard’ to a U.S.-Taiwan trade deal

The Biden administration’s decision to resume U.S.-Taiwan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement talks is a “reversion to the norm” after the Trump administration – and could be a key step toward a bilateral trade agreement as well, according to Andrew Wylegala, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan. During a virtual meeting last week with Taiwan Minister-Without-Portfolio John Deng, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai committed to resuming TIFA talks that had been stalled since the Obama administration...