USA Pavilion Food Taipei 2007 Taipei World Trade Center June 21-24, 2007

PR0734E | Date: 2007-06-15

The American Institute in Taiwan's Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) is proud to introduce the USA Pavilion at the 2007 Taipei International Food Show, the most diversified and exciting USA Pavilion ever presented.  This year, the USA Pavilion will contain 52 booth-exhibitors representing 30 companies and trade associations.  These booths will display a wide variety of high-quality food products, including wine, beef, poultry, dairy, citrus fruits, eggs, beverages, potatoes, processed foods and organic food products. 

AIT warmly welcomes Taiwan food industry executives, importers, retailers, and media representatives to visit the USA Pavilion to review the products, attend the record number of professional seminars and enjoy our business center fitted with treated US Southern Yellow Pine. This event is your chance to see what will be seen on grocers' shelves, on restaurant menus and in manufactured food products in the near future. Please stop by and see us!

Taiwan is the 6th largest market in the world for U.S. agricultural products.  In 2006, Taiwan imported more than $9 billion worth of agricultural products - more than 30 percent of which came from the United States.  It is a relationship in which both sides benefit significantly, and a partnership that we look forward to continuing and growing over the long term.

For more information regarding the 2007 USA Pavilion, please contact the Agricultural Trade Office of the American Institute in Taiwan at:

Agricultural Trade Office
American Institute in Taiwan
Tel:  (02) 2705-6536
Fax: (02) 2306-4885
Cell: 0910-312809, 0919-967293
E-Mail: atotaipei@usda.gov
Web: http://www.ait.org.tw/en/agriculture/ato/

In conjunction with the Food Show, there will also be a series of simultaneously interpreted professional seminars presented by USA Pavilion exhibitors at the World Trade Center:

Date:     June 22, 2007
Time:    1:00 - 5:00 PM
Location:    Conference Room #3, TWTC Exhibition Hall I
Organizer:    American Institute in Taiwan, Agricultural Trade Office
Co-sponsor:    Taiwan External Trade Development Council
Target Audience:  Executives and Officials in the Food and Agriculture Sector

Spotlight on Organic Foods Series:

Session 1:
Subject: Trends and Projections for the Future in the US Natural & Organic Products Industry
Speaker: Ms. Margaret Loew, VP- Special Projects P
Global Market Team Support
United Natural Foods, Inc
 
Session 2:
Subject: Insights on Organic Farming
Speaker: Mr. Buzz Sowden
Co-Founder/Grower
Sowden Bros./Mornin' Glory Organic Prunes

Session 3:
Subject: Trends of Specialty Food Use Grains, The USA Advantage.
Speaker: Mr. Tom McKay
International Sales & Logistics
SunOpta

Session 4:
Subject: An Update on the US Organic Market, and USDA Organic Certification and Standards
Speaker: Mr. David Gagnon
Chief Operating Officer
Organic Trade Association

Date:  June 24, 2007
Time:  10:30 - 12:00 AM
Location:  Conference Room #3, TWTC Exhibition Hall I
Target Audience: General Public and Traders
Organizer:  American Institute in Taiwan, Agricultural Trade Office
Co-sponsor:  Taiwan External Trade Development Council
Topic: Soy Foods and Hypercholesterolemia
Speaker: Dr. Shwn-Huey Yang
Assistant Professor
School of Nutrition & Health Sciences
Taipei Medical University