A private agriculture promotion group organized by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the People First Party (PFP) is scheduled to depart for China this week, KMT party whip Chen Chieh (
The delegation -- whose visit is mainly aimed at discussing duty-free access to the Chinese market for fruits -- is expected to include Tseng Yung-chuan (
Liu Chuan-chung is president of the Taiwan Provincial Farmers Association (TPFA), and Pai Tien-chih is a member of the TPFA Board of Standing Supervisors.
Other members of the group will include KMT spokesman Chang Jung-kung (張榮恭), KMT Secretary-General Lin Fong-cheng (林豐正), and Huang Fu-tien (黃福田), deputy executive director of the KMT Central Policy Committee, Chen Chieh said. Lin and Huang are currently in China to line up the details of the upcoming visit, he said.
It was learned that the TPFA reached consensus with Chinese authorities on all technical details regarding exports of Taiwanese fruit to China, including quarantine and country of origin certification, during an unannounced visit to Beijing by a delegation of association members late last month.
Since there were serious discrepancies between media reports and the statements made by TPFA staff to the Council of Agriculture June 30, the Mainland Affairs Council has asked the TPFA to clarify regarding the delegation talks in China last month.
In May, Beijing offered to allow duty-free imports for 15 kinds of Taiwanese fruit. The government has commissioned the Taiwan External Trade Development Council to negotiate with China over the proposed fruit exports.
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