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International Travel Information

What you need to know before you go: visas, Embassy & Consulate locations, vaccinations, etc.

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Current Travel Advisories

Level 3: Reconsider Travel

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COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Our donation of 2.5 million vaccine doses arrived in Taiwan on June 19, whose health partnership with the U.S. helped save lives here and around the world. The Department of State is proud to support President Biden’s commitment to help the world defeat COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for all of us. Working together to defeat this pandemic shows the strength of the United States-Taiwan relationship. On November 1, we delivered 1,500,100 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan.

Learn more about our work Delivering Vaccines and on COVID-19 Recovery.

Highlights

November 24, 2021

Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei American School: 2021-2022 Fact Sheet

November 24, 2021

Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Kaohsiung American School: 2021-2022 Fact Sheet

November 23, 2021

2021 U.S.-Taiwan Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue (EPPD)

November 19, 2021

2021 U.S.-Taiwan Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue

November 10, 2021

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U.S. Relationship

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U.S.-Taiwan Relations

The U.S. and Taiwan enjoy a robust unofficial relationship. The 1979 U.S.-P.R.C. Joint Communique switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. In the Joint Communique, the U.S. recognized the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China. The Joint Communique also stated that the people of the U.S. will maintain cultural, commercial, and other unofficial relations with the people of Taiwan. The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) is responsible for implementing U.S. policy toward Taiwan.

Economic Relations

The U.S. has maintained and enhanced its commercial ties with Taiwan since 1979. Taiwan is the United States’ ninth largest trading partner, and the U.S. is Taiwan’s second largest trading partner. Taiwan enjoys Export-Import Bank financing, Overseas Private Investment Corporation guarantees, normal trade relations status, and ready access to U.S. markets. AIT has been engaged in a series of trade discussions that have focused on protection of intellectual property rights and market access for U.S. goods and services. The U.S. has a trade and investment framework agreement with Taiwan under the auspices of AIT and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the U.S. As of 2013, companies from Taiwan employed more than 12,000 workers in the U.S. with total worker compensation of almost a billion dollars.

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