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Export promotion schemes are aimed at helping exporters to explore and expand markets, improve product quality, and upgrade product image. Trade promotion activities include organizing trade fairs and trade missions, providing market information, and establishing e-platforms for exporters. Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), a non-profit organization, is responsible for implementing major trade promotion programmes and projects. In continuation of trade promoting measures in the New Cheng Ho Plan, the BOFT runs several specific programmes such as the Industrial Image Promotion Project, the Project to Promote Most-Value Products in Emerging Markets, and the Green Trade Promotion Project. The authorities note there are no restrictions on industries and companies participating in these programmes. In 2012, NT$790 million was spent on trade promotion programmes run the BOFT.

Provisions pertaining to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are scattered in various acts and regulations. GMOs require authorization before their marketing and sale. In order to obtain authorization, genetically modified organisms (including aquatic organisms, plants, and animals) must undergo field tests and pass bio-safety assessments. Field tests of GMOs must be conducted by field testing institutions accredited by the relevant competent authorities. Evaluation Committees within the competent authorities are responsible for reviewing field tests and relevant management matters, as well as for approving bio-safety assessment reports after the field tests. A genetic-characteristics investigation, an integrated part of a field test, must be carried out and serve as a pre-requisite for bio-safety assessment. For imported GMOs, reports of genetic-characteristics investigations by the exporting countries may be accepted as reference documentation for the bio-safety assessment procedure. As of end-May 2014, only one GM-plant had been authorized.

(…) With regard to labelling, an approach of positive labelling is set out in the amended Act, i.e. food and food-additive ingredients that contain/are derived from GMOs must be listed.

The Government is promoting development of emerging industries such as biotechnology, green energy, and intelligent industries (e.g. electric vehicles and green building)

Within the context of the DDA, on the issue of fishery subsidies the Government believes in the need for establishing an effective fishery management system, with appropriate arrangements to prevent over- fishing

Within the context of the DDA, the Government supports the strengthening of information exchange and cooperation between the WTO and the multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), and the clarification of the relationship between their existing rules as well

As an APEC Member, the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu organized in 2009 the Meeting of the Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy

As an APEC Member, Chinese Taipei contributed in 2009 to, inter alia, the APEC Support Fund (ASF) promoting energy-efficiency activities in the region

FTA between Chinese Taipei and Nicaragua, signed on 16 June 2006 and entered into force on 1 January 2008, includes provisions on environment

Inbound direct investment prohibited in industries that may affect the environment, including forestry and logging, manufacture of certain chemicals used for explosives, manufacture of certain pesticides and herbicides