A bill to direct the Secretary of State to seek to enter into negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to rename its office the "Taiwan Representative Office", and for…
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
May 10, 2023
Introduced in Senate
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This bill requires the Department of State to seek to enter into negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) to rename its office in the District of Columbia the Taiwan Representative Office. (The U.S.-Taiwan relationship is unofficial, and TECRO is Taiwan's principal representative office in the United States.)
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1513: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to seek to enter into negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to rename its office the "Taiwan Representative Office", and for other purposes.. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1513/
"S. 1513: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to seek to enter into negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to rename its office the "Taiwan Representative Office", and for other purposes.." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1513/.
S. 1513, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1513/.
[S. 1513: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to seek to enter into negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to rename its office the "Taiwan Representative Office", and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1513/)