Local milk to remain competitive post-US trade pactStaff writer, with CNAThe dairy sector remains confident about its competitiveness, despite the arrival of tariff-free US milk under a newly signed Taiwan-US trade agreement, industry and government representatives said yesterday. Tariffs on New Zealand dairy products were removed in January last year under a bilateral free trade pact. While imported milk generally has stronger price competitiveness, Chen said the law reserves the label “fresh milk” exclusively for domestically produced milk, a term strongly favored by consumers. The ministry plans to prohibit imported milk from being labeled as fresh milk starting in July, he said. US exporters last year found that US milk has difficulty competing with New Zealand’s frozen concentrated milk, Fang said.

Source: Taipei Times February 14, 2026 17:22 UTC