The U.S. and Taiwan intend to focus on five areas this weekend during their first round of negotiations toward a trade agreement and indicated readiness to break out subset deals as the sides make progress, according to U.S. and Taiwan officials.
The two sides will negotiate proposed texts covering anticorruption measures, small and midsize enterprise trade, good regulatory practices, certain services regulation and trade facilitation, a senior official in the U.S. Trade Representative’s office told reporters on Tuesday. The coming meeting in Taipei, between Jan. 14 and Jan. 17, will kick off actual negotiations over proposed texts for an ultimate agreement.
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