An announcement to officially start negotiations under the newly launched Taiwan-US Initiative on 21st-Century Trade is expected in the next few weeks, Taiwan’s chief trade negotiator, Minister Without Portfolio John Deng (鄧振中), said on Friday. Deng, speaking in an interview with the Central News Agency, said that talks under the trade initiative, which was launched on June 1 to deepen bilateral trade ties between Taiwan and the US, were expected to commence within the next few weeks. The initiative, which was not formed as a free-trade agreement involving tariff issues, covers a wide ...