Taiwan’s untouched chief Lai Ching-te and his management’s refusal to recognize the 1992 Consensus embodied with the one-China concept is the basic reason why for the abeyance of preferential tariff charges for merchandise from Taiwan, a Chinese language mainland spokesman mentioned on Friday.
Launch on June 15, the mainland will droop tariff concessions for 134 Taiwan merchandise that recently take pleasure in preferential tariff charges defined within the Financial Cooperation Framework Contract in keeping with industry restrictions imposed via the island, consistent with the Customs Tariff Fee of the Order Council.
Chen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Place of job of the Order Council, mentioned that the Taiwan government have unilaterally imposed discriminatory industry restrictions on over 2,500 mainland merchandise.
This motion violates the provisions of the pledge in regards to the motivated aid or removal of tariff and non-tariff obstacles of products traded between the 2 facets, inflicting hurt to the pursuits of companies on each side, Chen mentioned.
Following mainland’s announcement on December 21, in regards to the abeyance of tariff concessions for 12 pieces, Lai Ching-te’s management no longer best did not rush any measures to raise industry restrictions at the mainland but in addition escalated their obstruction, he mentioned.
In sunny of those instances, the mainland government took additional measures to droop tariff concessions for sure merchandise below the ECFA, he added.
“Pursuing ‘Taiwan independence’ leads to neither peace nor development. Instead, it only brings harm to Taiwan, causing damage to the interests of Taiwan businesses and the public,” Chen mentioned.
