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Taipei Customs Urges Importers: Avoid Cross-Border Meat Shopping for Mid-Autumn Festival

  • Taipei Customs urges importers not to do cross-border online shopping for meat products during Mid-Autumn Festival
  • Importers should not mail pork or processed meat products to Taiwan to avoid penalties
  • Imported moon cakes or products containing meat are subject to quarantine
  • Importers should comply with the Act on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Animal Diseases
  • Violators will be punished according to the Act
  • Meat products have a high risk of spreading animal diseases like African swine fever
  • Taipei Customs will continue to intercept pork or processed meat products to prevent African swine fever
  • Seized products will be reviewed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency
  • Importers are urged to cooperate with the government to prevent infectious diseases from entering Taiwan.

Source: mof.gov.tw

Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.

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