The first two months of this year, Taiwan (China) imported the highest volume of tea from Vietnam, with 2,000 tonnes, worth US$3 million, up 3.5% in volume and 0.9% in value over the same period from last year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Taiwan's tea imports from Vietnam accounts for 47.7% of its total tea imports, an increase of 5 percentage points on-year.

The Import-Export Department under the MoIT cited data from the Taiwan Customs Administration as saying that tea imports into the Taiwanese market throughout the reviewed period reached 419,000 tons, worth US$12.56 million.

The average price of imported tea from Vietnam stood at roughly US$1,519 per ton. Tea imports from Vietnam accounted for 47.7% of total tea imports of the Taiwanese market, a rise of 5 percentage points on-year.

Black tea and green tea are the two main types imported into the Taiwanese market.

Vietnam, Sri Lanka and India are currently the three largest black tea suppliers to Taiwan.

The opening two months of 2022 saw the Taiwanese market increase black tea imports from Vietnam, and reduce imports from Sri Lanka and India.

The Taiwanese market imports green tea primarily from Vietnam and Japan. In which, the average import price of green tea from Vietnam is low priced at around US$1,639 per tonne, while that from Japan is high at US$11,719.4 per tonne.

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