Taiwan, Britain to start trade talksBy Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporterTaiwan and the UK are to begin official-level talks on an Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP) in three key areas with the aim of signing a memorandum of understanding. Photo courtesy of the Office of Trade NegotiationsThe UK and Taiwan will begin engaging businesses on the ETP in due course, it said. Taiwan would coordinate trade policies and rules on trade issues of common concern with the UK under the ETP framework to establish a long-term trade partnership, it said. Deng said that having signed its first agreement with the US, called the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade, Taiwan could ink similar agreements with other countries. The UK and Taiwan have been holding annual ministerial trade talks since 1991.
