Taiwanese importers in Texas for business matchmaking event
Taiwanese importers in Texas for business matchmaking event
2025-09-01
To expand business cooperation between Taiwan and the US, TAITRA for the first time held its annual US Business Day event in the US. Thirty Taiwanese importers— including Kuai Kuai, Kanpai, Wah Lee Industrial, and Everlight Chemical—met with 55 US suppliers for over 100 face-to-face meetings. As Taiwan looks to balance trade with the US, TAITRA said Taiwan must first extend goodwill and create a mutually beneficial model for bilateral trade between the countries.
Thirty Taiwanese importers gather to meet with 55 suppliers from the US in this massive business event organized by TAITRA. It’s the first time US Business Day is being held in the US. Even Taiwan’s favorite snack brand, Kuai Kuai, made an appearance.
Liu Yu
Kuai Kuai assistant purchasing manager
Apart from finding some suitable suppliers, we’re also here to promote Kuai Kuai. There’s actually no limit, because we don’t just partner with snack food suppliers. We don’t set any limits on what kind of cooperation we might have.
Other Taiwanese enterprises like Wah Lee, Everlight Chemical, and Kanpai are seeking purchase agreements with American processed food, biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical, electrical, and electronic component firms in search of industrial breakthroughs. Heavyweights like North America’s largest dehydrated potato supplier, a boutique coffee brand, and a sterilization system maker were all in attendance.
Lee Cheng
Wah Lee Industrial Corp
If you buy ingredients from here, of course there won’t be any tariff limitations. It would also increase our products’ competitiveness. Since we already have an office set up in the US, of course we hope to buy local. To us, there are more advantages.
Albert J. Favero
Polyvantis commercial leader
This is the first time we’ve come to the symposium by the Taiwanese companies. We’re just learning a little bit about what our opportunities might be with companies coming to America from Taiwan.
Ravi Menon
Polyvantis EVP of specialties
I think this is a great initiative to start connecting the folks in Asia very closely to folks that are manufacturing in the US. We have been working with Taiwanese companies for the last 50 years. It’s a very long-term relationship that we have had with our Taiwanese partners, and we only see that growing and becoming bigger going forward.
Unlike past years when US buyers came to meet with Taiwanese suppliers, this time, Taiwanese firms are actively placing orders with US suppliers to demonstrate their sincerity in cooperating with efforts to balance the bilateral trade relationship, as urged by President Trump.
James Huang
TAITRA chair
In the future, we’ll also invite overseas suppliers to come to Taiwan for negotiations with our domestic buyers. This is complete, two-way matchmaking between suppliers and purchasers.
Shifting purchasing strategies can help avoid tariff barriers and take advantage of Taiwan’s trade imbalance with the US to create a win-win situation for both sides.
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貿協首辦"美國商機日" 30家台灣進口商齊聚德州
2025-09-01
外貿協會為了加大台美商貿合作關係，首次在美舉辦美國商機日，集結乖乖、乾杯、華立企業、永光化學等30家台灣進口商與美國55家供應商，面對面進行超過百場洽商，在美國政府的平衡貿易主張下，貿協強調，台灣要先釋出善意，打造台美貿易互惠互利模式。
大型洽商現場，聚集30家台灣進口商，與55家美國供應商，貿協首次在美舉辦的美國商機日，連台灣國民食品大廠乖乖也來了。
[[乖乖採購部副理 劉郁]]
“除了想要找到一些，適合的供應商之外，其實主要也是想要推廣乖乖，其實就是不設限啦，因為其實我們配對到，也不只是食品的供應商，那其實就是沒有設限說，一定要大家要怎麼樣的合作模式”
華立企業、永光化學、乾杯集團等台灣企業，以美國加工食品、生技醫藥、化工、電機能源及電子零組件為採購重點，尋產業轉型破口。北美最大脫水馬鈴薯供應商、精品咖啡品牌，以及美國殺菌系統公司等重量級企業，都在參與名單中。
[[華立企業資深經理 李征]]
“如果你買這邊的原料，當然就不會有這個關稅的這些限制，那也會增加我們產品的競爭力，而且我們公司是因為，在美國當地已經有設公司，所以當然我們是希望說，能夠在地採購，對我們來說會有更好的優勢”
[[Polyvantis美洲區商務總監 Albert J. Favero]]
“這是我們第一次參加台灣公司的洽談，但我們只是稍微了解了一下，我們可能與台灣公司的合作機會”
[[SBPolyvantis執行副總裁 Ravi Menon]]
“我認為這是一個非常棒的舉措，它能將亞洲的製造業力量，與我們本地人緊密聯繫起來，過去50年來我們一直與台灣企業合作，我們與台灣合作夥伴建立了非常長期的合作關係，並且我們預見到這種關係將在未來不斷發展壯大”
有別以往邀請美方買主來台採購，這次台灣企業化被動為主動，先跟美國下單，要在川普主張的平衡貿易下，先展現十足合作誠意。
[[貿協董事長 黃志芳]]
“我們將來也會朝把外國的供應商也邀請到台灣來，來跟我們國內的採購商(洽商) ，這個就是充分的、雙向的，一個採購跟供應的媒合”
轉換採購策略，避開關稅壁壘，順勢助攻我國對美降低貿易逆差，打造台美雙贏經貿發展。
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