Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement

CSSTA
Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement
TypeService Trade Agreement
SignedJune 21, 2013 (2013-06-21)
LocationChina Dong Jiao State Guest Hotel, Shanghai, China
RatifiedUnratified
Signatories Chairman Lin Join-sane
President Chen Deming
PartiesTaiwan Straits Exchange Foundation
China Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
LanguageMandarin
(Putonghua and Guoyu)
Full text
zh:海峽兩岸服務貿易協議 at Wikisource
Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement
Traditional Chinese海峽兩岸服務貿易協議
Simplified Chinese海峡两岸服务贸易协议
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHǎixiá Liǎng'àn Fúwù Màoyì Xiéyì
Wade–GilesHai-hsia Liang-an Fuwu Mao-i Hsieh-i
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingHoihaap Loengngon Fukmou Maujik Hipji
Southern Min
Hokkien POJHái-kiap lióng-gān ho̍k-bū mō͘-e̍k hia̍p-gī
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The Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, commonly abbreviated CSSTA and sometimes alternatively translated Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Services, is a treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) that was signed in June 2013. However, it was never ratified by the Taiwanese legislature due to opposition from the Sunflower Student Movement, which rejected the CSSTA on the grounds that the Kuomintang (KMT) leadership in Taiwan negotiated and attempted ratification of the treaty in an undemocratic way.

The treaty aimed to liberalize trade between the two economies in service industries such as banking, healthcare, tourism, film, telecommunications, and publishing.[1] The CSSTA was one of two planned follow-up treaties to the 2010 Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement. The other, the Cross-Strait Goods Trade Agreement, had not yet been negotiated.[2]

  1. ^ Moira Weigel; Yu-Yun Hsieh (27 March 2014). "324: Dispatch from Taipei". Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement" (PDF). ECFA. Retrieved 31 March 2014.

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