Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BIO Asia-Taiwan International Conference and Exhibition this year will take the form of a combined onsite and virtual presentation, when it opens on July 22, the organizers said Monday.
The 2020 pharmaceutical and biotechnology trade fair is expected to bring together industry executives and investors from Taiwan and abroad, with some 500 exhibitors at 1,100 booths, according to Taiwan Bio Industry Organization (Taiwan BIO), one of the organizers.

Indonesian food and beverage companies connected with buyers in Taiwan on Thursday in a virtual trade show, displaying distinctive plant-based products, canned seafood, and other products from their country.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has started an investigation into selected tire imports from Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand to determine whether manufacturers from these countries have sold their products at unfairly low prices in the U.S. market. In a statement, the DOC said the anti-dumping (AD) investigation has targeted passenger vehicle and light truck (PVLT) tires sold from these countries.

In cooperation with economics-related agencies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has helped increase foreign investment in Taiwan and procurement by foreign companies in the first quarter of the year, compared with the same period of 2019.

Taiwan has moved up five places from last year to 11th in the latest annual world competitiveness ranking released by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) on Tuesday. It was Taiwan's best performance in the last four years after ranking 14th in both 2016 and 2017, 17th in 2018, and 16th in 2019, and the first time it was ranked as high as 11th since the 2015 rankings. Taiwan also remained the third most competitive economy in Asia in the 2020 rankings, behind Singap

Taiwan issued 240 employment gold cards to foreign professionals in the first five months of this year, an increase of 77.8 percent from a year earlier, according to the National Development Council (NDC) Tuesday.

Taiwan's exports in May fell for the third consecutive month amid lower demand from overseas economies throttled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) reported on Monday.

Taiwan retained its position as having the fourth largest foreign exchange reserves in the world at the end of May, as forex reserves hit a record high, according to the central bank. Data compiled by the central bank showed Taiwan's forex reserves as of May totaled US$484.52 billion, up US$2.73 billion from a month earlier, helping the country retain its position as having the fourth largest forex assets in the world.