Talks on the cross-strait trade in goods agreement are unlikely to resume before the end of this year, Minister of Economic Affairs Woody Duh (杜紫軍) told a press conference yesterday.
Duh said negotiators from both sides of the Taiwan Strait had not talked about when to hold another meeting after the most recent talks, held in Yilan County last month.
“They [the Chinese side] have been very busy... Another formal talk on the agreement will have to wait after the APEC summit finishes,” he said.
Duh, who is scheduled to attend the annual APEC meeting next week in Beijing, said he hopes there will be a chance for him to have a bilateral talk with Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng (高虎城) on the follow-up issues of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA).
Duh said the Taiwanese government will not give up on its goal of inking the trade in goods agreement with China before South Korea completes its free-trade agreement with China.
The meeting in Yilan irked the public at the time as the ministry had attempted to keep the location of the meeting a secret from the public.
However, Duh said that in the future, the ministry will let the public know when and where the trade talks would be held, and the government would disclose as much information as it could to the public.
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