Taiwan may expand the scope of its offshore transshipment center in the southern port city of Kaohsiung and allow the direct import of goods from China before December, local Chinese-language media reported yesterday.
The Cabinet may draw up relevant procedures before the start of elections at the end of the year, a Chinese language newspaper reported yesterday, quoting an unnamed official.
The elections for legislators and local government heads will be held on Dec. 1.
Currently, goods from China arriving at the center undergo simple processing, but are not allowed to enter Taiwan customs and must be transshipped to a third destination.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 following a civil war, and direct trade and transportation between the two sides has been banned ever since.
However, cargo shipments across the Taiwan Strait are legal through the offshore transshipment center, which began operations in April 1997.
Chinese vessels can dock there and transfer containers destined for a third country without entering Taiwan officially.
If the offshore transshipment center is expanded to include six domestic export processing zones as suggested earlier by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, existing measures could gradually be eased in accordance with market demand, the unnamed official said.
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has completed an evaluation report on the transshipment center's expansion and on allowing mainland goods to pass customs clearance to enter Taiwan, the official said, adding that the report has already been submitted to the Cabinet.
The government originally intended to wait for a friendly gesture from China before considering a further expansion of the transshipment center, but is now thinking about responding to a consensus reached at a major economic development conference in late August and the needs of Taiwan businesspeople, the official said.
Minister for Economic Affairs Lin Hsin-yi (
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