Rejecting U.S. pork could hurt Taiwan's CPTPP bid: Tsai

The passage of a referendum seeking to ban pork imports containing ractopomine, which largely come from the United States, could undermine Taiwan's bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) as it could be interpreted as a lack of determination to embrace free trade, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Tuesday.

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