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Taiwan Lowers MFN Tariffs on Certain Japanese Ag Goods

Taiwan lowered Most Favored Nation tariffs on certain agricultural goods from Japan in a bid to “normalize” the Taiwan-Japan trade relationship, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service said in a report issued July 31. The two countries’ trade…

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relationship is marred by the 2018 “anti-Fukushima food referendum,” the USDA said, which kept in place a ban on Fukushima agricultural exports to Taiwan for two years. Taiwan is hoping the tariff reduction helps it earn Japanese support for joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, the report said. The tariff changes were passed by Taiwan’s legislature July 2.