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Retail food outlets in Taiwan are comprised of convenience stores, supermarkets, and hypermarkets, which generated $32.8 billion worth of sales in 2022, a 4.57 percent growth from 2021.

In 2022, the United States moved up to become the number one market for Taiwan’s agricultural and related exports. However, Taiwan’s exports to the United States, valued at $955 million, did not change substantially from the previous year.

With Taiwan’s Organic Agriculture Promotion Act in effect since 2019, the industry has been phasing in an expanded universe of organics. More clean label products and upcoming third-party certified quasi-organics are sharing shelf space with certified organics.

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.