Taiwan to Set up Trade Representative Office

UNCLAS AIT TAIPEI 003276 SIPDIS INFO USDOC WASHDC AMEMBASSY BANGKOK AMEMBASSY BEIJING AMEMBASSY SEOUL AMEMBASSY SINGAPORE AMEMBASSY TOKYO AMEMBASSY MANILA AMEMBASSY JAKARTA AMEMBASSY KUALA LUMPUR AMEMBASSY HANOI AMEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON AMCONSUL HONG KONG AMCONSUL SHANGHAI AMCONSUL GUANGZHOU SIPDIS, SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED STATE PLEASE PASS AIT/W AND USTR STATE FOR EAP/TC, EAP/EP USDOC FOR 4420/USFCS/OCEA/EAP/LDROKER USDOC FOR 3132/USFCS/OIO/EAP/ADAVENPORT E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EINV EFIN ECON ETRD TW SUBJECT: Taiwan to Set up Trade Representative Office ¶1. Taiwan's Executive Yuan (EY) will set up a Taiwan Trade Representative (TTR) Office, likely in December 2006. The TTR will be responsible for all trade negotiations and is modeled on USTR, according to Connie Chang, a special aide to former Economic Minister Morgan Huang. ¶2. The TTR will be headed by Vice Premier Tsai Ing-wen, with Economic Minister Steve Chen serving as Deputy. Initially, the TTR will have a staff of seven senior negotiators, including four negotiators transferred from the Bureau of Foreign Trade and one each from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Council of Agriculture, Young