Taiwan, China sign service trade pact
ROC Central News Agency
2013/06/21 15:02:23
Shanghai, June 21 (CNA) Taiwan and China signed a service trade pact Friday in Shanghai to open the service sectors on both sides, a move designed to deepen ties across the Taiwan Strait.
The pact was signed in Shanghai by Lin Join-sane, chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), and Chen Deming, president of the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).
The SEF and ARATS are quasi-official organizations responsible for cross-strait relations in the absence of official ties.
The move is expected to strengthen the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) signed between the two sides in 2010.
Taiwan is also expected to sign a goods trade pact and a dispute settlement agreement with China in future talks.
(By Feng Chao and Ann Chen)
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