February 16, 2025

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U.S. to Start Consultations With Taiwan Over Currency

WASHINGTON—The U.S. will begin talks with Taiwan to address the valuation of its forex and exterior imbalances, indicating its central financial institution is actively intervening in the overseas-exchange current market, the Treasury Office reported Friday.

The office will continue on identical talks with Vietnam and Switzerland, which ended up specified as forex manipulators by the Treasury less than the Trump administration in January.

Departing from the Trump administration’s stance, the Treasury stopped small of designating the three forex manipulators.

“Treasury has decided that there is inadequate proof to make a obtaining that Vietnam, Switzerland, or Taiwan manipulates its exchange price for possibly of the reasons referenced” less than a 1988 law on trade and competitiveness, the Treasury reported.

The designations arrived in the Treasury’s semiannual report that analyzes overseas-exchange and financial policies of main U.S. investing companions. It was the 1st report issued less than Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.