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REFERENDUMS 2021/Minister says pork ban will isolate Taiwan; KMT member decries 'hoax' Taipei, Nov. 24 (CNA) Rejecting certain American pork imports will isolate Taiwan from world trade, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said Wednesday at a televised referendum forum, while a former Kuomintang (KMT) lawmaker said that argument was nothing but political manipulation. If an upcoming referendum passes to prohibit imports of American pork, offal and other related products that contain the livestock drug ractopamine, it would jeopardize Taiwan's efforts to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Wang said. Prohibiting such imports would mean...
