Identifier
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05TAIPEI4604
2005-11-17 03:42:00
SECRET
American Institute Taiwan, Taipei
Cable title:  

TAIWAN EXPORT CONTROL: POSITIVE REACTION

Tags:  ETTC PARM PINR PREL PTER TW CBW MTAG 
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S E C R E T TAIPEI 004604 

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR EAP/TC, EAP/EP, ISN/MTR MHARDIMAN
DEPT PASS AIT/W

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/22/2015
TAGS: ETTC PARM PINR PREL PTER TW CBW MTAG
SUBJECT: TAIWAN EXPORT CONTROL: POSITIVE REACTION

REF: A. STATE 207695:

B. TAIPEI 3479

C. STATE 202155

D. LE-NEELY EMAIL 11/15/05

Classified By: AIT Director Douglas Paal, Reason 1.4 b/d

S E C R E T TAIPEI 004604

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR EAP/TC, EAP/EP, ISN/MTR MHARDIMAN
DEPT PASS AIT/W

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/22/2015
TAGS: ETTC PARM PINR PREL PTER TW CBW MTAG
SUBJECT: TAIWAN EXPORT CONTROL: POSITIVE REACTION

REF: A. STATE 207695:

B. TAIPEI 3479

C. STATE 202155

D. LE-NEELY EMAIL 11/15/05

Classified By: AIT Director Douglas Paal, Reason 1.4 b/d


1. (S) AIT delivered ref a talking points to Taiwan Bureau
of Foreign Trade (BOFT) Export Controls Task Force Head Wally
Su on November 15. Su gave a very positive response to the
news that we have requested our representatives in Australia,
Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Kingdom to demarche
appropriate host government officials to "support" and
"assist" Taiwan in improving its export controls. He
expressed hope that this "multilateral" approach would
strengthen channels of communication between Taiwan and these
other economies and facilitate the sharing of information on
export control issues. Su remarked that a "multilateral
network" such as this would have made Taiwan's attempts to
return the P2S5 precursor chemical to Italy (ref b) much
easier, since during that case Taiwan was frustrated in its
attempts to consult with authorities in other economies.


2. (S) AIT will later this week begin demarches on local
representatives of Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and
the United Kingdom to deliver the points and non-papers in
ref c. AIT requests that posts in these countries info AIT
when reporting on reactions to the demarches there.


3. (S) Su also spoke of problems created by discrepancies
between the Export Control Commodity Numbers (ECCN) and the
Harmonized System (HS) numbering system. He asked for AIT
advice on how other economies deal with the discrepancies,
and he welcomed the idea of visit by a U.S. technical team
that could discuss such issues, as well as the expanded list
of sensitive commodities. Su also responded positively to
ref d suggestions of a possible visit by a EXBS-funded
assessment team during the week of December 12-16 and to
possible EXBS training on pre-license checks and
post-shipment verification sometime in the first half of
January 2006.
Paal