# US and Taiwan sign the first 21st Century Trade Initiative agreement Date: 2023 ## The fact On 1 June 2023 the United States and Taiwan signed the first agreement under the 21st Century Trade Initiative covering customs, SMEs, and anti-corruption chapters. ## Context AIT and TECRO signed. USTR negotiated. She did not sit as USTR. A first-agreement is still a dated industrial-and-diplomatic instrument short of FTA market access. New Southbound is a neighbouring diversification row. US pork is a neighbouring earlier farm-cost row. The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles. She does not write a PRC statute, a US NDAA, a TSMC board minute, or a 2026 Lai cabinet order. She left office on 20 May 2024; [Lai Ching-te](/people/lai-ching-te) is president. A blackout is not a finding that every reactor was thereby safe. A Pelosi transit is not a PRC missile. Allegation of a stolen 2018 referendum is not stored as a completed steal. An indigenous apology is not a land-title gazette. A New Southbound brand is not an FTA by itself. A 2024 LY split is not a finding that the 2020 mandate was void. ## Evidence and sources Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism): a completed first-agreement with the US is a trade-and-standards instrument without converting into a full FTA. ## What is established and what is not Established: a 1 June 2023 first 21st Century Trade Initiative agreement, independently reported, while she was president. Not established: that a comprehensive FTA was signed, or a unique later GDP coefficient from the chapter set. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. USTR signed for Washington. MOEA implemented chapters. [Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden)’s cabinet was the counterpart.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies US and Taiwan sign the first 21st Century Trade Initiative agreement, not a later speech about US and Taiwan sign the first 21st Century Trade Initiative agreement. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. US and Taiwan sign the first 21st Century Trade Initiative agreement on 2023-06-01 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average US and Taiwan sign the first 21st Century Trade Initiative agreement into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Her government negotiated through TECRO. USTR signed for Washington. MOEA implemented chapters. Biden’s cabinet was the counterpart. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Tsai Ing-wen: https://factrail.ai/people/tsai-ing-wen ## Drivers - Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism - Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-taiwan-sign-first-agreement-under-trade-initiative-2023-06-01/ - https://www.moea.gov.tw/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-tsai-tifa-2023