Taiwan: Food Processing Ingredients Annual

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   TW2024-0014
In 2023, Taiwan imported US$3.7 billion agricultural products from the US, which accounted for 24.47 percent of the island’s total import value. Its food processing industry produced $30 billion of processed food and beverages, among which the strongest subsectors are animal feed, meat processing, baked goods, and non-alcoholic beverages. The aging market is attracted to healthy products with added nutritional values, as well as convenient, single portion products to better suit the changing family structure.

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