[Intl-tobacco] Taiwan to Import Spirits, Cigarettes to Prepare for WTO Entry

[Robert Weissman]

Taiwan to Import Spirits, Cigarettes to Prepare for WTO Entry
BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Economic
Central News Agency web site, Taipei
January 08, 2001

Text of report by David Hsu in English by Taiwanese Central News Agency web
site

Taipei, 8 January: Taiwan's Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) under the Ministry
of Economic Affairs gave a green light Monday [8 January] to the import of
cigarettes, beer, wine and spirits from Albania, Estonia, Georgia, Jordan,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia and Oman.

BOFT said the category of spirits refers to distilled and reprocessed liquor
but does not include "Asian-style" distilled liquor made from sorghum and
rice.

BOFT officials said the measures have been taken based on the resolution
adopted in the process of Taiwan's application to join the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor of the World Trade Organization
(WTO).

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