reached $26900000000.00 so and so we probably have to wait till biden's trade representative catherine dop catherine tai who's parents are from taiwan to see how she will deal with it and to see if that will lead to a concrete progress of the trade agreement of the 2 sides let's say a trade agreement is reached what's this mean for taiwan's relationship to china taiwan of course made to take up supplying both the west and china where does it leave it while it's a heated debate here in taiwan because on the one hand it seems that taiwan's export highly depend on china's vast market but on the other hand china also depend on taiwan's export of high tech chips which they cannot mate by themselves so until then we can expect trade go in between the 2 sites all right somehow sue as always thank you so much. time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news. the u.s. has put new duties on some products to failing to resolve a 16 year dispute over aircraft subsidies brussels wants to be go she ate over the imported carrots over 15 percent on at kraft and 25 percent on wines as soon as presi