Taiwan to Set up Trade Representative Office

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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,

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