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Asia Pacific Economic Integration and U.S.‐Taiwan Business Cooperation: Formula for Success
Francis Kuo‐Hsin Liang
ChairmanTaiwan External Trade Development CouncilCarnegie Endowment for International PeaceMarch 24, 2015
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Presentation TopicsOutline of Presentation
AA Model that Works: Successful U.S.‐Taiwan Cooperation Partnership
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Taiwan’s Unique Advantages in the Global Market
Asia‐Pacific Emerging Trend Toward Regional Economic Integration
DTaiwan is well positioned to contribute to regional trade agreements
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U.S.‐Taiwan Trade Relations on an Upward Path
Conclusion
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A Model that Works: Successful U.S.‐Taiwan Cooperation Partnership
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Taiwan at your finger tipsA Model that Works: Successful U.S.-Taiwan Cooperation Partnership
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Taiwan’s Unique Advantages in the Global Market
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What are Taiwan’s unique advantages in today’s global marketplace?
What are Taiwan’s unique advantages?Taiwan’s Unique Advantages in the Global Market
Central geographic location
Highly developed logistics
Close Proximity of Research and Development
An experienced pool of high tech talent
Taiwan innovative spirit and resources
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Centrally located in the Asia PacificTaiwan’s Unique Advantages in the Global Market
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Highly developed logistics capacityTaiwan’s Unique Advantages in the Global Market
Taiwan ranked 19th in the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index, ahead of South
Korea and China.
Unbeatable combination of infrastructure and industrial clusters
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Close proximity to R&D, production, finance, transportation Taiwan’s Unique Advantages in the Global Market
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Experienced pool of talentTaiwan’s Unique Advantages in the Global Market
Highly experienced and skilled
professionals to perform research and development
Experience representatives that understand and can open new market
opportunities in Asia
Marketing and sales professionals who know the business practices in the Chinese‐speaking
world
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Innovative spirit and resourcesTaiwan’s Unique Advantages in the Global Market
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Asia‐Pacific Emerging Trend Toward Regional Economic Integration
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406 Regional Trade Agreements in Force
Both in TPP & RCEPTPP membersRCEP members
Regional and bilateral FTAs numbers are at a all time highAsia-Pacific Emerging Trend Toward Regional Economic Integration
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Sources:Global Trade Atlas Navigator 2013 Database
2013 Trade Value Unit: Millions of US Dollars
2013 Total trade value Export ImportTrade
balance(Change%)Dependence(%) Amount 2012Annual Change Rate(%)
AmountAnnual Change Rate(%)
AmountAnnual Change Rate(%)
USA 22.9 3,845,707 3,821,028 0.65 1,578,851 2.14 2,266,855 ‐0.37 ‐688,004 ‐5.7
Canada 57 920,539 917,487 0.33 458,772 0.8 461,767 ‐5.7 ‐2,995 ‐58.37
Taiwan 117.58 575,330 571,645 0.65 305,437 1.415 269,893 ‐0.21 35,544 15.75
China 51 4,159,963 3,867,453 7.56 2,210,662 7.83 1,949,300 7.26 261,362 12.29
Japan 32 1,547,494 1,684,285 ‐8.12 714,866 ‐10.47 832,628 ‐6.01 ‐117,762 34.75
South Korea 95 1,075,218 1,067,454 0.72 559,632 2.15 515,586 ‐0.77 44,047 55.72
Singapore 265 783,490 788,557 ‐0.64 410,368 0.43 373,122 ‐1.79 37,246 29.84
India 44 779,932 787,675 ‐0.99 312,267 5.05 467,665 ‐4.64 ‐155,398 ‐19.55
Malaysia 139 434,514 424,360 2.39 228,395 0.28 206,119 4.85 22,276 ‐28.54
Taiwan is very engaged in international tradeAsia-Pacific Emerging Trend Toward Regional Economic Integration
Source: IMF
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Asia-Pacific Emerging Trend Toward Regional Economic Integration
The implications from being left out of trade agreements
In the 2014 Global Trade Facilitation Index, Taiwan was ranked #24 in the world
In the category of “market access,” our ranking dropped from #101 in 2012 to #121 in 2014
In the subcategory of “access to foreign markets,” Taiwan performed especially poorly, placing at #137
2014 Global Trade Facilitation Index(World Economic Forum, WEF) (April, 2014)
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Taiwan heavily trades with TPP and RCEP membersAsia-Pacific Emerging Trend Toward Regional Economic Integration
Taiwan’s trade with TPP & RCEP members (2014)
Taiwan’s trade with TPP members amounted to 204.72 billion USD
USA 31%
Japan 30%
Singapore 14%
Malaysia 9%
Vietnam 6%
Australia 5%
Canada 2%Mexico
1%
Chile1%
New Zealand
1%
Peru 0%Brunei 0%
Taiwan’s trade with RCEP members amounted to 331.11 billion USD
CHINA 39%
ASEAN 28%
JAPAN 19%
KOREA 8%
AUSTRALIA 3% INDIA 2%
NEW ZEALAND
1%
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Taiwan is well positioned to contribute to regional trade agreements
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Taiwan is a strong trading partner for trade agreementsTaiwan is well positioned to contribute to regional trade agreements
top industrial cluster
infrastructure in the world
strong production supply chain links with TPP and RCEP members
3rd best country in the world for investment
adapting high‐standard
commitments on a wide range
of issues
IPR‐related laws and regulations on copyrights,
patents, trademarks and trade secrets
("World Competitiveness Report 2014“)
(BERI, 2013)
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U.S.‐Taiwan Trade Relations on an Upward Path
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Strong U.S.‐Taiwan trade and bilateral relationsU.S.- Taiwan Trade Relations on an Upward Path
Source: United States Census Bureau; Taiwan Customs Administration
• Taiwan was the United States’ 10th largest trading partner in 2014 with $67.4 billion in trade (that’s larger than U.S. trade with India, Italy or Australia!)
• United States was Taiwan’s 2nd largest trading partner in 2014
2014 US top trading partners
1 CANADA
2 CHINA
3 MEXICO
4 JAPAN
5 GERMANY
6 KOREA, SOUTH
7 UNITED KINGDOM
8 FRANCE
9 BRAZIL
10 TAIWAN
2014 Taiwan top trading partners
1 CHINA
2 UNITED STATES
3 JAPAN
4 HONG KONG
5 SINGAPORE
6 KOREA, SOUTH
7 MALAYSIA
8 SAUDI ARABIA
9 GERMANY
10 VIET NAM
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Conclusion
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Taiwan: A strong trade partner for the United StatesConclusion
• Taiwan was the United States’ 10thlargest trading partner in 2014 with $67.4 billion in trade (that’s larger than U.S. trade with India, Italy or Australia!)
• United States was Taiwan’s 2nd largest trading partner in 2014
• Taiwan is a strong innovator and ranks #6 in number of foreign patents approved in the United States
• Nearly half of Taiwan’s students who are studying abroad chose the U.S. as their destination
The sum of our two parts is greater than the whole
A win-win partnership
Thank You