US Undersecretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Luke J. Lindberg is visiting Taiwan on an agribusiness trade mission to meet with local meat industry representatives and drum up business for US food exporters.
During the visit, which ends tomorrow, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) official is to meet with leaders from the Taiwan branch of the US Meat Export Federation and Taiwan’s meat industry to expand trade opportunities, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) said in a statement yesterday.
Lindberg is also to take part in a forum cohosted by the AIT and the US Grains and BioProducts Council, it said.
Photo: Screen grab from the American Institute in Taiwan’s Facebook page
Taiwan is the eighth-largest market for US agricultural exports, with trade increasing 16 percent from 2019 to last year, USDA statistics show.
The US remains Taiwan’s top foreign supplier of agricultural products, accounting for 25 percent of its agricultural import market, USDA data showed.
In related news, a source in Taipei yesterday said that Vice Premier Cheng Li-chun (鄭麗君), who led Taiwan’s delegation to Washington earlier this summer for four rounds of tariff negotiations, recently departed for the US.
In response to media queries for details, the Executive Yuan’s Office of Trade Negotiations said that Taiwan and the US continue to actively engage in communications on trade and economic issues, and that further information on any negotiations would be disclosed to the public in due course.
Additional reporting by Chen Yun
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