{"id":768667,"date":"2026-05-02T17:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768667\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:47:23","slug":"minister-opens-hub-in-phoenix-to-boost-trade-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768667\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister opens hub in Phoenix to boost trade ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin (\u9f94\u660e\u946b) on Friday presided over the opening ceremony of the Taiwan Trade and Investment Service Center in Phoenix, Arizona, deepening Taiwan-US supply chain ties.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix center is Taiwan\u2019s second such facility in the US, after the first in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The centers are expected to help Taiwanese companies expand to the US market, and participate in local manufacturing and innovation ecosystems, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/P01-260503-601.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs via CNA<\/p>\n<p>Kung, who is leading a delegation to the annual SelectUSA Investment Summit, said Arizona was the group\u2019s first stop.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation also met with local and state officials to explore more opportunities for cooperation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs said Taiwan and her state had built a close friendship and were committed to supporting each other in technological innovation, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs said she expected the two sides to continue cooperation in the coming years to build a resilient global supply chain, the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation also visited Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co\u2019s (TSMC, \u53f0\u7a4d\u96fb) advanced fab in Phoenix, the chipmaker\u2019s first facility there.<\/p>\n<p>Kung said TSMC\u2019s presence in Arizona showed that Taiwan had extended its reach into the US market and created many high-paying jobs, helping build mutual trust between the two nations and laying a solid foundation for supply chain cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said Arizona was Taiwan\u2019s third-largest trading partner last year, with bilateral trade totaling US$21.24 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan was also Arizona\u2019s largest source of imports and second-largest export market, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin (\u9f94\u660e\u946b) on Friday presided over the opening ceremony of the Taiwan Trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":768668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,22593,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,22592],"class_list":{"0":"post-768667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-the-taipei-times","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-22592"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116506241567353584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}