US embassy cable - 05TAIPEI4604

S E C R E T TAIPEI 004604 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR EAP/TC, EAP/EP, ISN/MTR MHARDIMAN 
DEPT PASS AIT/W 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/22/2015 
TAGS: ETTC, PARM, PINR, PREL, PTER, TW, CBW, MTAG 
SUBJECT: TAIWAN EXPORT CONTROL: POSITIVE REACTION 
 
REF: A. STATE 207695: 
     B. TAIPEI 3479 
     C. STATE 202155 
     D. LE-NEELY EMAIL 11/15/05 
 
Classified By: AIT Director Douglas Paal, Reason 1.4 b/d 
 
1.  (S) AIT delivered ref a talking points to Taiwan Bureau 
of Foreign Trade (BOFT) Export Controls Task Force Head Wally 
Su on November 15.  Su gave a very positive response to the 
news that we have requested our representatives in Australia, 
Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Kingdom to demarche 
appropriate host government officials to "support" and 
"assist" Taiwan in improving its export controls.  He 
expressed hope that this "multilateral" approach would 
strengthen channels of communication between Taiwan and these 
other economies and facilitate the sharing of information on 
export control issues.  Su remarked that a "multilateral 
network" such as this would have made Taiwan's attempts to 
return the P2S5 precursor chemical to Italy (ref b) much 
easier, since during that case Taiwan was frustrated in its 
attempts to consult with authorities in other economies. 
 
2.  (S) AIT will later this week begin demarches on local 
representatives of Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and 
the United Kingdom to deliver the points and non-papers in 
ref c.  AIT requests that posts in these countries info AIT 
when reporting on reactions to the demarches there. 
 
3.  (S) Su also spoke of problems created by discrepancies 
between the Export Control Commodity Numbers (ECCN) and the 
Harmonized System (HS) numbering system.  He asked for AIT 
advice on how other economies deal with the discrepancies, 
and he welcomed the idea of visit by a U.S. technical team 
that could discuss such issues, as well as the expanded list 
of sensitive commodities.  Su also responded positively to 
ref d suggestions of a possible visit by a EXBS-funded 
assessment team during the week of December 12-16 and to 
possible EXBS training on pre-license checks and 
post-shipment verification sometime in the first half of 
January 2006. 
Paal