Translating a Taiwanese nutrition table into English is one of the classic ways food gets detained at a US port. This article walks through the current FDA Nutrition Facts requirements — serving sizes based on FDA reference amounts, the Added Sugars line, four mandatory minerals and vitamins, dual-column labels for mix-and-prepare products — and the key differences from Taiwanese labels.
FDA compliance is only the entry ticket. What a US retail buyer actually reviews is a different stack of documents: the Certificate of Insurance for product liability, UPC barcodes properly licensed through GS1, the W-9 tax form, and whether you will pay a slotting fee. This article walks through the second-half paperwork of supermarket listing so you are ready before the buyer asks.
Search in Chinese for how Japanese seafood enters the US and you find years-old nuclear-wastewater news, nothing useful. Following FDA seafood HACCP and import rules, this article covers the documents Japanese seafood needs, the parasite-freezing requirement for sashimi-grade fish, where radiation screening stands today, and the actual flow our group runs from Toyosu Market by air to the US and Taiwan.
"Do we have to incorporate in the US before we can sell there?" For most Taiwanese SMEs the answer is: not yet. This article lays the two roads side by side — setting up your own US company versus appointing an IOR agent — across one-time costs, annual costs and hidden obligations, explains at what stage to switch from agent to entity, and how the hybrid arrangement works.
Since the tariff war, goods between the US, China and Taiwan increasingly move in triangles — and US Customs has made origin-washing transshipment an enforcement priority, naming Taiwan a high-risk hub. This article draws the line between legal triangular trade and illegal transshipment: what determines origin, what substantial transformation means, what documents to keep, and how SKYCARGO runs its US→China and China→Taiwan lanes.
A US tariff is not one percentage — it is a structure: the HTSUS schedule rate and the 15% non-stacking reciprocal tariff set the frame, Section 301 may add on top, plus the MPF and, for ocean freight, the HMF fees. This article works through one $20,000 shipment of Taiwanese goods starting from HS classification, and ends with what belongs in a DDP quote.
The Importer of Record is the party that answers to US Customs for everything: filing the entry, paying duties, holding a customs bond, keeping records for five years and bearing the penalties for false declarations. From the perspective of a Taiwanese B2B exporter, this article explains the boundaries of IOR responsibility, how a bond is purchased, who pays the 15% reciprocal tariff, and the difference between acting as a foreign IOR yourself and appointing a US company.
Frozen food exports to the US most often capsize in three places: the product code is filed as ambient, the filling contains meat and runs straight into FSIS, or a ready-to-eat product tests positive for Listeria. Following FDA and USDA rules, this article lays out how frozen products are classified, the no-go zone for meat, the microbiological focus and how temperature is handled during inspection — with GoodMall scallion pancakes as the example.
Seafood is the only food category in the US with HACCP written directly into law: 21 CFR Part 123 requires every seafood processor selling into the US to have a HACCP plan, and the importer must verify it separately. This article explains in plain terms what the plan must contain, the four hazards FDA cares about most, how importer verification works, and walks through the Taijiang milkfish case.
For cold-chain cargo exported to the US, temperature records are not for your own reference — they are the evidence FDA and the importer audit. Following the FSMA Sanitary Transportation rule, this article explains what the shipper, carrier and receiver are each responsible for, why records are kept for 12 months, how a broken chain is handled during inspection at the port, and how SKYCARGO takes over on the US side.
