A delegation from the Executive Yuan’s Office of Trade Negotiations and the Ministry of Economic Affairs attended the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting held May 15-16 in Jeju, South Korea, highlighting the government’s commitment to advancing regional prosperity.
According to the EY, discussions at the event spanned topics such as fostering connectivity through the multilateral trading system, leveraging artificial intelligence innovation to facilitate trade and implementing sustainable trade to enhance prosperity.
Led by Minister without Portfolio and OTN Trade Representative Yang Jen-ni, the delegation urged APEC member economies to advocate for comprehensive reforms of World Trade Organization systems, particularly those pertaining to oversight and transparency, negotiation, and dispute settlement, and encouraged fellow members to work together to deliver a successful 14th WTO Ministerial Conference in 2026.
The group further shared Taiwan’s success in utilizing AI to expedite customs clearance, as well as its efforts to promote President Lai Ching-te’s Five Trusted Industry Sectors initiative. Delegates concurred with other member economies on the need to adopt AI-enabled procedures to facilitate trade while addressing challenges posed by AI, including ensuring intellectual property rights protection and information security.
Delegation members said during the event that Taiwan will continue to implement carbon pricing measures, advance the circular economy and raise the global profile of its industries to build a greener Taiwan. They joined counterparts in stressing that regional cooperation is key to creating resilient and sustainable supply chains and that only through public-private collaboration can the transformation to a green economy be achieved.
The EY said that group members took the opportunity to seek support from other economies for Taiwan’s bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership on the sidelines of the event. It added that Yang also met with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer May 15 in Jeju.
The delegates reaffirmed the constructive results of the two sides’ talks in April, when a delegation led by Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun visited Washington, D.C., to discuss the U.S. tariff issue, the EY said. The two sides expressed hope of continuing the negotiations and deepening the Taiwan-U.S. economic and trade relationship to boost mutual economic growth and industrial development, it added. (YCH-E)
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According to the EY, discussions at the event spanned topics such as fostering connectivity through the multilateral trading system, leveraging artificial intelligence innovation to facilitate trade and implementing sustainable trade to enhance prosperity.
Led by Minister without Portfolio and OTN Trade Representative Yang Jen-ni, the delegation urged APEC member economies to advocate for comprehensive reforms of World Trade Organization systems, particularly those pertaining to oversight and transparency, negotiation, and dispute settlement, and encouraged fellow members to work together to deliver a successful 14th WTO Ministerial Conference in 2026.
The group further shared Taiwan’s success in utilizing AI to expedite customs clearance, as well as its efforts to promote President Lai Ching-te’s Five Trusted Industry Sectors initiative. Delegates concurred with other member economies on the need to adopt AI-enabled procedures to facilitate trade while addressing challenges posed by AI, including ensuring intellectual property rights protection and information security.
Delegation members said during the event that Taiwan will continue to implement carbon pricing measures, advance the circular economy and raise the global profile of its industries to build a greener Taiwan. They joined counterparts in stressing that regional cooperation is key to creating resilient and sustainable supply chains and that only through public-private collaboration can the transformation to a green economy be achieved.
The EY said that group members took the opportunity to seek support from other economies for Taiwan’s bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership on the sidelines of the event. It added that Yang also met with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer May 15 in Jeju.
The delegates reaffirmed the constructive results of the two sides’ talks in April, when a delegation led by Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun visited Washington, D.C., to discuss the U.S. tariff issue, the EY said. The two sides expressed hope of continuing the negotiations and deepening the Taiwan-U.S. economic and trade relationship to boost mutual economic growth and industrial development, it added. (YCH-E)
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