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Viewing cable 06AITTAIPEI3276, Taiwan to Set up Trade Representative Office

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06AITTAIPEI3276 2006-09-22 05:34 2011-08-23 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED American Institute Taiwan, Taipei
VZCZCXYZ0001
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHIN #3276 2650534
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 220534Z SEP 06
FM AIT TAIPEI
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 2259
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, 
 
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