Taiwan, U.S. likely to discuss supply chain security in TIFA talks: minister
06/11/2021 03:55 PM
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Taipei, June 11 (CNA) Trade negotiations between Taiwan and the United States will resume with a virtual meeting, at which supply chain security is likely to be one of the issues on the table, under the bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA), Minister without Portfolio John Deng (鄧振中) said Thursday night.
Deng, who heads Taiwan s Office of Trade Negotiations, told CNA in a phone interview that apart from supply chain security, other likely topics of mutual concern include carbon emissions, labor rights and welfare, digital economy, intellectual property rights, and trade secrets protection.
U.S. asks Mexico to review a second complaint about labor violations in its auto industry.
By The New York Times
June 9, 2021, 7:03 p.m. ET
The Biden administration is invoking provisions in a new trade agreement to ask Mexico to look into accusations of labor violations at an auto-parts plant near the U.S. border.
The action, announced Wednesday by the Labor Department and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, follows a complaint by groups including the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the nation’s largest federation of unions, that workers were being denied the rights of free association and collective bargaining.
Meat processor paid $11 million in ransom to hackers.
A billboard in Brazil for the meatpacking giant JBS. The chief executive said the decision to pay a ransom to hackers was “very difficult.”Credit.Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
The world’s largest meat processor said on Wednesday that it paid an $11 million ransom in Bitcoin to the hackers behind an attack that forced the shutdown last week of all the company’s U.S. beef plants and disrupted operations at poultry and pork plants.
The company, JBS, said in a statement that the decision to pay the ransom was made to protect its data and hedge against risk for its customers. The company said most of its facilities were back up and running when the payment was made.
Washington, June 10 (CNA) The United States and Taiwan have committed to restarting talks under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) mechanism in coming weeks, the Office of the United States Trade Representative said on Thursday.
On June 8, the Biden Administration released reports on the supply chain reviews directed under Executive Order (E.O.) 14017, “America’s Supply Chains,” detailing key findings and next.