	taiwan plans mission to close  gap with u s taiwan s leading industrial organisation said it will send its first buying mission to the u s later this year in an effort to reduce the country s  surplus with washington a spokesman for the chinese national federation of industries told reuters the mission was part of a broader plan to switch large purchases to the u s from japan the federation groups all of taiwan s major industrial associations last year its members purchased about billion u s dlrs worth of industrial products from japan and about billion from the u s the spokesman said federation members were now discussing the volume of business they could transfer to america he said they had drawn up a list of about industrial products they would be shopping for in the u s during the buying mission in september but he could give no figure on how much would be spent a board of foreign  official told reuters the government would send two buying missions to america between june and july this year and might send others later taiwan s  surplus with the u s rose to a record billion dlrs last year from billion in reuter 
