1. Legal (Law and Regulation)

Import Tariff

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Figure 2

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The figures above show the import tariff of coffee to Taiwan. Both figure 1 and figure

2 describe that the coffee imported to Taiwan from Indonesia is duty free according to

the “first column”, both decaffeinated and not decaffeinated. The Kopi Luwak which

will be imported from Indonesia is basically not decaffeinated.

Food Laws

On July 23, 2013, Taiwan inaugurated the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), which consolidates the former ministerial-level Department of Health (DOH), Department of Social Affairs and Child Welfare Bureau both under the Ministry of Interior Affairs and National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine under the Ministry of Education. MOHW’s mission is to, "promote the health and well-being of all citizens.”

General Requirements

All packaged food products must carry: 1) a general label and 2) a nutritional label -- both in Chinese. (NOTE: Taiwan uses traditional Chinese characters -- not the simplified characters used in mainland China). The one exception is for food additives which only require a general label.

General Label

All processed food products or food activities for retail sale must have a Chinese language label with the following information:

- Product name- Name, weight, volume or quantity of the ingredients (if a mixture of two or more ingredients, must

be listed separately; for specific products prescribed by Taiwan’s central competent authority, the labeling shall indicate the percentage of the main ingredient

- Food additives - Name, telephone number, and detailed address of manufacturer and importer- Country of origin- Expiration date (year/month/date)- To distinguish the month from the date, the Chinese characters for “month” and “date” may be

included on the label- If the shelf of the product is three months or longer and the product is presumed to expire at the end

of the month, then the expiry date may be marked with the year and month only. -