Taiwan: Taiwan Reaches Organic Equivalency with Japan and Australia

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In early February 2020, Taiwan's Agriculture and Food Agency (AFA) announced that it concluded organic equivalency negotiations with Japan and Australia. AFA published two updates to its website notifying that an agreement for organic equivalency had been reached with Australia on January 20, 2020, and with Japan on February 1, 2020. The full text of the Japan-Taiwan agreement was also made available. Australia and Taiwan have yet to publish finalized text.

Taiwan: Taiwan Reaches Organic Equivalency with Japan and Australia

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