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Asia Pacific Economic Integration and U.S.Taiwan Business Cooperation: Formula for Success Francis KuoHsin Liang Chairman Taiwan External Trade Development Council Carnegie Endowment for International Peace March 24, 2015

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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

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