Word: frameworks
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...have been talking about an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China. What do you want to achieve with that...
...ECFA will be different from a normal free-trade agreement. It will take the form of a framework that will identify the types of items we will negotiate over time. We want to negotiate with the mainland about some of the products we consider most urgent. For instance, pertrochemicals, auto parts, textiles, these products constitute a large percentage of our exports to the mainland. Beginning next year, the same products from (Southeast Asian countries) will have no tariffs, but ours will face tariff rates from 5% to 15%. That will kill our industries. The mainland has already indicated interest...
...think so, do you know why? We have already made it very clear last year when I took office, that I'll have a mainland policy, which is under the framework of our constitution and which is based on three principles: no unification, no independence, and no use of force. By no unification I mean no unification talks with the mainland during my term. The second is no independence. Of course Taiwan has autonomy because we elect our own president, parliament and run our own business, but the independence I talk about is de jure independence...
...responsibility and sacrifice for the environment. Hopefully large cap-and-trade schemes pass in Washington and the U.S. joins in at the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen—grand-scale cap and trade is the best way to quickly reduce emissions. But we must be careful that the framework of any cap-and-trade scheme does not unfairly exonerate the responsibilities certain groups should have to face. More importantly, a cap-and-trade scheme must strengthen rather than harm communal obligation and aspiration...
...Paul Krugman,” said economics professor Pol Antràs, who worked with Melitz during his time at Harvard. Melitz’s influence on the study of international trade began with his graduate thesis at the University of Michigan. In that paper, he built a conceptual framework for international trade that focused on decisions of individual firms and their entrance into the market. Melitz’s firm-level approach to international trade has provided a way to predict aggregate trade flows, which Antràs said “have been confirmed in the data...