The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it as asked the Ministry of Economic
Affairs to suspend issuing a public notice regarding an impending export
control on shipping chips to South Africa.

According to the foreign ministry, the request has been issued as South
Africa has agreed to talks over a year-long dispute regarding the status of
Taiwan's representative office in the country.

The economics ministry earlier this week announced export controls on 47
products shipped to South Africa in response to its repeated downgrading and
renaming of Taiwan's representative offices.

The products include integrated circuits, chips and memory.

The economics ministry had said companies shipping the designated products to
South Africa must first obtain approval.

However, the ministry says it will not post notice of the ban on the
Cabinet's online gazette system for the time being.

Although it has not elaborated on that statement, it is being seeing as a
suspension of the planned ban on the export to South Africa of certain high
tech items.