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US GOVT LISTS TAIWAN CORRUPTION, E-COMMERCE AS TRADE BARRIERS.

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WASHINGTON, April 2 Asia Pulse - The United States government released an annual report to Congress Friday that listed for the first time corruption and e-commerce as trade barriers in Taiwan.

The "Foreign Trade Barriers" report, prepared by the U.S. Trade Representative Office, covers three trading blocs and 52 separate economies.

The 471-page report, ten pages of which are dedicated to Taiwan, details trade barriers in 11 major areas ranging from agriculture to intellectual property rights and e-commerce.

"We need to build support for open trade," U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said in a statement accompanying the report. "That means publicizing the existence of trade barriers in foreign markets and working with our trading partners to eliminate them."

Trade barriers of Taiwan were significantly lowered or eliminated when Washington and Taipei reached agreements in February 1998 on the market access elements of ...

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