TAIPEI: Taiwan state-backed bodies could over the next decade buy an extra US$200 billion from the United States and bump up the percentage of LNG it gets from the country by one-third to help narrow the trade deficit, the economy minister said on Thursday (Apr 10). Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Sunday pledged to seek a zero tariff regime with the United States and buy more from and invest more in the country, and said that Taipei would not retaliate in response to US tariffs - now put on