Fourth Chiang-Chen meeting to herald beginning of ECFA talks

The proposed signing of the ECFA will be a topic of dialogue when Chiang Pin-kung, the chairman of the Taipei-based Straits Exchange Foundation, and his Chinese counterpart, Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits President Chen Yunlin, meet in December in Taichung, Shih said.

He said Taiwan expects the agreement to be signed some time in 2010, and "as soon as possible."

According to Ministry of Economic Affairs officials, the government hopes that formal ECFA negotiations can start by January 2010, when representatives of the two sides will exchange lists of products they hope will be covered by an early harvest program under the trade deal.

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