[Global Network Report Reporter Zhao Youping] Jumped to his feet in a hurry and threatened to go to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to sue the mainland's "Committee for Agriculture" and changed his mouth...
According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network," Chen Jizhong, chairman of Taiwan's "Committee of Agriculture," threatened to file a complaint with the WTO on October 1 because it had found diseases and insect pests on the mainland. However, the "Committee on Agriculture" changed its mouth yesterday (September 30) and said that it would first seek a regular meeting of the WTO Food Safety Inspection and Animal and Plant Quarantine (SPS) Committee in November, and if it is still unable to be resolved, it will enter the WTO dispute resolution mechanism. Former DPP "legislator" Guo Zhengliang was bitter about this, and the "Agricultural Committee" was about to become a "king of bluffing (the king of false words and the king of big talks)."
According to the report, Chen Jizhong recently threatened to file a dispute settlement complaint with the WTO on October 1, and now the deadline has expired. Chen Junji, vice chairman of Taiwan's "Agricultural Committee," changed his tune at a press conference after the "Executive Yuan" meeting yesterday and said, "It is not the court that rings a bell and makes a complaint." Chen Junji said that the quarantine of agricultural products is a technical issue, and consultations should be held on the technical platform; it was mentioned that if the mainland does not enter the consultation, it will follow the WTO mechanism, hoping to handle trade disputes through WTO norms and mechanisms.
He further explained that the WTO's handling of agricultural trade disputes should first be handled from the proposal of sps regular meetings; if not, there will be further relevant meeting occasions. The "Committee on Agriculture" will express the relevant issues, and the next stage will enter the WTO's dispute resolution system.
Chen Jizhong's remarks in an interview with the media today are consistent with the caliber of the "Committee of Agriculture" yesterday.
According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency," Chen Jizhong said that today he has provided all written materials to Taiwan's "representative office" in the WTO, and will directly put forward demands at the SPS regular meeting in November, hoping to seek a solution to the technical problems of cross-strait quarantine prevention and quarantine in this regular meeting. According to the report, "he expects that before the SPS regular meeting, if it can be solved, it will be resolved in accordance with the relevant cross-strait anti-quarantine mechanism."
Taiwan's "Committee on Agriculture" further claimed today that it has written to Taiwan's "representative office" in the WTO today asking for its assistance in raising specific trade concerns to the SPS Committee's regular meeting from November 3 to 5.
Guo Zhengliang said on the program "News Vernacular" today that the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a press conference to show photos of Taiwan's fruit diseases and insect pests, but Chen Jizhong said that he had not seen the photos. Guo Zhengliang questioned why the "Committee on Agriculture" had a record of unqualifiedness if he had not seen the photos. And the mainland has no longer accepted chemical fumigation since 2019, so there is only return, there is no other way.
As for Chen Jizhong's threat to the WTO to file a complaint, Guo Zhengliang analyzed that it is necessary to prove that the mainland quarantine is discrimination, but about 800 agricultural products from the mainland cannot be imported into Taiwan. "I'm afraid it's going to be complicated!"
Guo Zhengliang also sarcastically said that the "Agricultural Committee" is about to become a "ministry meeting" and "scare the rotten king (the king of false words and the king of big words)".
He used the example of joining the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement) to illustrate that the "Committee on Agriculture" expects to earn 50 billion yuan in new Taiwan in five years, but did he mention how much it will be impacted in five years? The WTO Taiwan's agricultural product shock fund has NT$100 billion, which is still in 1996, if converted to the current currency value of nearly NT$200 billion. Now the "Committee of Agriculture" does not have to estimate the agricultural shock?
Guo Zhengliang said bluntly with dissatisfaction that the "Agricultural Committee" does not talk about such a big issue of life and death, and talks about some trivial things, how can there be such a "Agricultural Committee"? "It's really a scare king, incredible!"
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