Limits on Taiwan small-scale trade to be lifted

时间：2007-09-28 06:23:06

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Sept.28 - The central government plans to relax restrictions1 on small-scale trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan to boost economic and trade exchanges across the Taiwan Straits.

 

The policy will take effect next month in some pilot ports on the eastern and southern coast, Wang Xinpei, spokesman for the Ministry2 of Commerce, told a press briefing Thursday.

 

The regulation was jointly3 published by the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs.

 

Small-scale trade, initiated4 in 1993, is the only type in the form of direct shipping5 between the two sides across the Taiwan Straits. It is supplementary6 to trade exchanges and plays an active role in communications between the two sides.

 

Small-scale trade constitutes a tiny part of cross-Straits trade, though no official figures are available.

 

Under the new policy, restrictions will be lifted on the tonnage of ships from Taiwan - now set at 100 tons - and the value of a single deal - now less than $100,000, Wang said.

 

The first batch7 of pilot ports includes:

 

Shenjiamen in Zhoushan and Shipu in Ningbo, both in Zhejiang Province;

 

Mawei in Fuzhou and Shijinggang in Quanzhou, both in Fujian Province; and

 

Huizhou in Guangdong Province.

 

Wang said the commercial departments in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces and some designated cities will be allowed to approve the business scope of mainland companies that conduct small-scale trade with Taiwan.

 

Previously8, these businesses could get approval only from commercial departments authorized9 by the Ministry of Commerce.

 

Trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan stood at $66.17 billion in the first seven months of this year, up 12.6 percent from a year earlier, according to Ministry of Commerce statistics.

 
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2 ministry kD5x2     
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3 jointly jp9zvS     
ad.联合地，共同地
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n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）
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adj.补充的，附加的
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