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As the United States' sixth-largest export market for food and agricultural products, Taiwan imported almost US $4 billion of food and agricultural products from the US in 2021. This year, 2022, looks to exceed that mark, potentially hitting record imports.

Taiwan rejected and or destroyed 28 shipments of U.S. agricultural products in 2022 according to the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA). Chemical residues were cited as the reason for 18 of the 28 recorded rejections. The second largest...

Taiwan released its list of imported food and agricultural products undergoing enhanced border inspection for 2023. No U.S. products were included on the list. In 2022, U.S. apples, avocadoes, and paper plates had been subject to enhanced inspection.

Infographic exploring the growth of U.S. potato products exports over the last 10 years.

In 2014, Taiwan was the seventh largest export market for U.S. food and agricultural products valued at US $3.51 billion.

Under Taiwan’s Feed Control Act all genetically engineered products for animal feed use are now required to register with Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture for premarket approvals by February 4, 2017.

COA released draft legislation regarding the production, marketing, testing, and labeling of organic products, including imported products, as well as regulations regarding organic equivalency...

The 2015 U.S. Rice CSQ tender concluded on November 17 after the tender GF4-104-128 for 10,884 MT of U.S. long grain brown rice was successfully awarded.

On October 29, Taiwan completed two normal tenders of the 2015 U.S. rice CSQ, GF4-104-115 for 9,000 MT of long grain brown rice and GF4-104-123 for 4,000 MT of medium or short grain rice.

In MY2014/15, Taiwan imported a total of 156,007 metric tons (MT) of apples, valued at nearly US$240 million.

On October 22, Taiwan completed a normal tender GF4-104-105 for 4,000 MT of U.S. medium or short grain rice and scheduled another normal tender for October 29.

As a result of breeding improvements throughout Taiwan’s dairy cattle industry, domestic milk production is forecast to steadily increase to 380,000 metric tons in 2016, up from 374,000 MT in 2015.