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RHMFIUU/USCBP WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RHEBAAA/DEPT OF ENERGY WASHINGTON DC

UNCLAS AIT TAIPEI 001067 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR ISN/ECC - JFRIEDMAN, ACHURCH, NJOHANSON, AND ROWEN 
STATE FOR EAP/TC - NTALBOT, DPARKER, TMANN 
STATE FOR ISN/MTR - PDURHAM, SBOYER, JMAYES, AND RPALMIERO 
DHS/CBP/INA FOR RGONZALEZ 
DOE/NNSA/INECP FOR TPERRY AND SJONES 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW
SUBJECT: EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - AUGUST 2009 
 
¶I.  BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS: 
 
(SBU) During the week of September 7, the Advisor will accompany 
five (5) Taiwan officials to Washington, DC, for export control 
meetings.   The Advisor will be on home leave during the weeks of 
September 14 and 21. 
II. COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 
¶A.  MEETINGS DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD: 
 
(SBU) On August 24, the then-ADIR sent a letter to Deputy Director 
General Hsu, Chun-Fang (Ms.) of the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) 
of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs with a set of 
recommendations to further advance Taiwan's export control system. 
Specifically, AIT recommended that Taiwan (1) designate a point of 
contact within the National Security Council for 
counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism efforts; (2) create a 
formal, permanent office within BOFT to implement export controls; 
(3) increase export control staffing or create an NGO to support 
current staffing level; and (4) create a true interagency mechanism 
for policy making and license review.  BOFT plans to send a formal 
response to inform AIT of its action plan pursuant to the 
recommendations.  AIT expects to receive the response letter on or 
about September 4. 
 
¶B. BLUE LANTERN: 
 
(SBU) The Advisor conducted one (1) Blue Lantern check during the 
reporting period.  Results have been directly reported to PM/DDTC. 
 
III. TRAINING CONDUCTED DURING REPORTING PERIOD: 
 
(1) (U) A Commodity Identification Training, implemented by the 
Department of Energy, took place on August 12-14 in Taipei.  Forty 
Taiwan officials (the maximum capacity) from BOFT, Industrial 
Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Customs, Coast Guard, Ministry 
of National Defense, Office of Homeland Security, Ministry of 
Justice Investigations Bureau, National Police Agency, and the 
National Security Bureau attended the training. 
 
(U) After the training, AIT, BOFT, Customs, ITRI, and DOE officials 
met to plan the upcoming CIT Instructor Training Workshop. 
 
¶2. (U) The Internal Compliance Program (ICP) Administrator Training 
took place on August 27-28 in Taipei.  The ICP software has migrated 
to the BOFT website and is expected to go "live" shortly.  The 
workshop provided BOFT's IT personnel training on updating and 
maintaining various templates and search tools in the software. 
 
IV. UPCOMING TRAINING: 
 
None on the calendar. 
 
¶V. RED FLAG ISSUES: 
 
None. 
 
POC for this report is Mi-Yong Kim, EXBS Advisor.  Telephone +886 2 
2162 2347. 
 
STANTON