This year, in an effort to avoid being listed, Lin Yi-fu, vice-minister of economic affairs, and Chen Ruey-long, director of the Bureau of Foreign Trade, went to the US in early August to undertake vice-ministeriallevel discussions and provide explanations to the US side. However this action was not successful, and Taiwan was once again cited.
今年，為了避免我國名列報復名單，經濟部次長林義夫、國貿局長陳瑞隆等人，八月初前往美國進行次長級經濟對話時，曾對美方提出說明，不過此舉並未奏效，我國仍再度列名。