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Taiwan is essentially completely reliant on wheat and corn imports, whereas domestic production accounting for approximately 90% of the total staple rice consumed.

Taiwan’s demand for soybean meal destined for animal feed continues to be the driving force behind Taiwan’s soybean imports.

On October 22, Taiwan completed a normal tender GF4-104-105 for 4,000 MT of U.S. medium or short grain rice and scheduled another normal tender for October 29.

As a result of breeding improvements throughout Taiwan’s dairy cattle industry, domestic milk production is forecast to steadily increase to 380,000 metric tons in 2016, up from 374,000 MT in 2015.

On October 13, Taiwan completed the second U.S. Simultaneous-buy and Sell (SBS) rice tender for 18,000 MT and scheduled two U.S. rice normal tenders...