图书序言
Unit 7
Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Services
两岸服贸协议
代表意义超理解
两岸服贸协议是台湾与大陆间相互放宽服务业限制的贸易协定。双方于2013 年6 月间签订协议,但目前台湾的立法院尚未通过该协议。
The Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Services aimed to liberalize trade in services between Taiwan and mainland China. It was signed in June 2013; however, it is currently ungratified by Taiwan’s Legislature Yuan, which is the lawmaking body of Taiwan.
背景知识大突破
根据协议内容,「服务业」的范围包括医保、银行、旅游、电影、电信、印刷等行业,两岸双方将互相将这些产业开放,接受投资。两岸服贸协议是2010 年双方签订ECFA 后续的两个协议之一,另一个后续协议则是两岸货贸协议。
Under the terms of the agreement, “services” include healthcare, banking, tourism, film, telecommunications, and printings. These industries will be opened to investment under the agreement. It is one of two planned follow-up treaties to the ECFA signed in 2010. The other follow-up treaty would be the Cross-Strait
Agreement on Trade in Goods.
使用方法一把罩
两岸服贸协议的官方英文名称是The Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Service,但国外媒体也会用The Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) 称唿服贸协议。另外一些报导为求方便,也会用The Service Pact 或是The Service Agreement 来称唿服贸协议。和服贸相关的太阳花运动英文则称为Sun Flower Movement。
主题文章
In Taiwan, over 300,000 people joined a rally in front of the Presidential Office in April to expand a protest movement over a controversial service trade pact with mainland China. A massive sit-in was staged at the demonstration on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office and nearby Zhongshan South Road.