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Taiwan negotiator confident of free-trade deal with US – eventually
Taiwan is under no illusions it can quickly sign a long hoped for free trade deal with the United States but feels when the time is right “success will flow naturally”, the island’s chief trade negotiator said on Friday.Taiwan has long sought a bilateral trade deal with the United States, the island’s most important international backer and supplier of arms.Last year, the government lifted a ban on the import of pork containing a leanness-enhancing additive called ractopamine, removing a major…