Newly appointed UK Trade Commissioner for Asia Pacific visits Taiwan to strengthen trade and investment links
Newly appointed UK Trade Commissioner for Asia Pacific visits Taiwan to strengthen trade and investment links
The UK Trade Envoy to Taiwan, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, will conduct a week-long visit in Taiwan to strengthen UK-Taiwan trade and investment relations and to deepen bilateral economic and cultural ties.
Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Alicia Kearns: “Foreign Secretary should absolutely go to Taiwan”
Taiwan Policy centre overview of the Taiwan elements of The Foreign Affairs Committee Report on the Integrated Review and the Indo-Pacific.
[EXCERPT] The UK’s approach to export licensing for Taiwan has not changed. The UK operates one of the most transparent export licensing systems in the world, publishing quarterly and
annual statistics on all our export licensing decisions, including details of export licences
granted, refused and revoked, including those to Taiwan. Quarterly statistics published by
the Export Control Joint Unit earlier in the year show that the UK has not ceased issuing
arms export licences to Taiwan. All applications are considered on a case by case basis
against the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. Licences for exports of controlled goods
will only be granted where consistent with the Criteria.
The UK’s longstanding policy on Taiwan has not changed: we have no diplomatic relations with Taiwan but a strong, unofficial relationship, based on dynamic commercial, educational and cultural ties.