Minister: Taiwan aims for swift, early harvests from ‘21st-Century’ trade talks

Taiwan has told the U.S. it is intent on a “very ambitious schedule” in negotiations via the recently launched Initiative on 21st-Century Trade, according to Taiwan’s chief trade negotiator John Deng, who tells Inside U.S. Trade he is hopeful that early harvests from the talks could help make way for Taiwan’s inclusion in parallel negotiations underway between the U.S. and other partners in Indo-Pacific. “We have a very ambitious schedule. We hope this negotiation can … produce results as...