When ASEAN Plus China began to come into force in 2005, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) conducted a survey to ask manufacturing firms what sort of impact they expected as a result of Taiwan's exclusion from the ASEAN Plus China and ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan, South Korea) free trade zones on our six major exports-optoelectronics, electronics, petrochemicals, steel, textiles, and automobile parts.
其實早在 2005 年「東協加中國」開始生效時，經建會就針對我國的 6 大出口產業──光電、電子、石化、鋼鐵、紡織、汽車零組件──做過調查，詢問廠商台灣一旦被排除於「東協加 1（中國）」、「東協加 3（中日韓）」自由貿易區外，對其出口的影響。