The countdown is launched. Taiwan negotiators about US customs’ tasks work “24 hours a day” to conclude an agreement with the United States, Taiwanés vice president, Hsiao Bi-Khim, said Friday before the date of August 1 in Washington.
Taiwan is threatened with a customs tax of 32% and is also directed by possible new customs tasks in electronic chips, a key engine of its economy.
The vice president said that Taiwan wanted a commercial agreement with Washington that “will benefit both parties.”
Emphasizing that the United States is “a very important commercial partner for Taiwan,” Hsiao Bi-Khim said Washington, on the other hand, Taiwan needs to support the resistant supply chains, to support the manufacturing industry and certain advanced technologies. “
Taiwan is a global giant in the manufacture of electronic fleas. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, accused the island of stealing the American semiconductor industry.
About 60% of Taiwanese exports to the United States refer to information and communication technologies, including electronic flea.
President Trump granted the United States business partners until August 1 to reach an agreement with the White House on customs tasks.
Until now, he has announced that the agreements with Indonesia, the United Kingdom and Vietnam, as well as an agreement with China to temporarily reduce customs taxes between the world’s first economic powers.
Source: BFM TV
