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FAS Accra, Abidjan (Post) and the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) welcomed 51 African buying companies from 12 African countries and 13 USMEF members to Accra, Ghana.

In 2024, Taiwan was the eighth-largest market for U.S. agricultural exports, valued at $3.8 billion, 16 percent greater than 5 years ago. The top five U.S. agricultural exports to Taiwan are beef and beef products, soybeans, corn, wheat, and fresh fruits.

The 2024 U.S. Agricultural Export Yearbook provides a statistical summary of U.S. agricultural commodity exports to the world during the 2024 calendar year.

FAS Accra (Post) successfully facilitated the transit of a small herd of high-value, reproductive Texas-bred V8 Brahman cattle. The cattle round-up started out in Texas making its way via Chicago to Doha with landfall in Coastal West Africa's Accra (Ghana). Post's expeditious intervention expedited Ghanaian (ECOWAS) import permits and sanitary clearances, as well as transit authorizations.

Starting in 2025, Taiwan will eliminate tariffs on liquid milk imports from New Zealand. Taiwan dairy farmers are worried about the future, as the primary dairy product in Taiwan is fresh milk, with only a small portion used for other dairy beverages or products.

Taiwan issued a new WTO notification (G/TBT/N/TPKM/541) on June 7, 2024, amending the labeling regulations for liquid milk, which will mainly impact the nomenclature of liquid milk from the United States. Currently, liquid milk from the United States can be labeled as "fresh milk" if it complies with CNS regulation.

The 2023 U.S. Agricultural Export Yearbook provides a statistical summary of U.S. agricultural commodity exports to the world during the 2023 calendar year.

Post forecasts Ghana’s MY2024 chicken meat imports at 270,000 metric tons (MT), unchanged from the preceding year’s estimate.

On September 26 and September 28, 2023, Taiwan notified the WTO that it was invoking volume-based special safeguards on imports of other chicken cuts and pork belly, respectively.

In MY 2023, Taiwan’s liquid milk production is estimated to reach 474,000 tons and is forecast to see a slight increase in MY 2024. However, the long-term liquid milk outlook is complex and subject to unstable dynamics due to New Zealand dairy products soon to have unlimited tariff-free access to the Taiwan market in 2025.

Taiwan has temporarily revised its quarantine requirements to curtail disease-zone restrictions for imported eggs and egg products.

Taiwan has completed implementing new certification requirements for imported meat products. The changes occurred in two phases: 1) October 1, 2022 was the effective date for new certification requirements for livestock and poultry; 2) July 1, 2023 was the effective date for canned meat products.