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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is considering forming a high-tech strategic partnership with the U.S., which wants increased Taiwanese investment, the island’s top tariff<\/a> negotiator said on Thursday, giving an update on talks with Washington.<\/p>\n

Taiwan, home to the world’s biggest contract chipmaker TSMC, runs a large trade surplus with the United States. The island’s exports to the U.S. are currently subject to a 20% tariff, a figure Taipei’s government is seeking to cut.<\/p>\n

Taiwan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun, who is leading the tariff talks with Washington, told reporters in Taipei she was hopeful both sides could reach a consensus on expanding investment in the United States through a “Taiwan model”.<\/p>\n

This would not involve relocating supply chains but rather extending and expanding U.S. production capacity, said Cheng, who returned this week from the latest round of talks.<\/p>\n

The government views the model for investing in the country as “industrial investment planning” coupled with government support measures such as export credit guarantees and joint Taiwan-U.S. development of industrial clusters, she added.<\/p>\n

“The current negotiation focus is that the United States expects us to expand investments and engage in supply chain cooperation,” Cheng said.<\/p>\n

Neither the U.S. Commerce Department nor the Office of the United States Trade Representative has responded to requests for comment on the talks.<\/p>\n

The U.S. government went into shutdown on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

TSMC, whose business is surging on strong demand for artificial intelligence<\/a> applications, is investing $165 billion to build chip factories in the U.S. state of Arizona, though the bulk of its production will remain in Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Cheng, who said TSMC did not take part in the latest talks, repeated that a proposal floated in U.S. media by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick for a 50-50 split in making chips is not something Taiwan would agree to and was not brought up.<\/p>\n

“We can clearly say that we understand that the U.S. side’s hope is to increase domestic production capability to satisfy U.S. domestic demand,” she added.<\/p>\n

The aim of Taiwan’s industry is to “remain rooted in Taiwan and deploy around the world, and then have bilateral strategic cooperation,” Cheng said.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Jeanny Kao; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is considering forming a high-tech strategic partnership with the U.S., which wants increased Taiwanese investment,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,113550,3,26158,3998,18312,2830,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-196609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cheng-li-chiun","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-strategic-partnership","12":"tag-taiwan","13":"tag-tsmc","14":"tag-u-s","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}