Pacific Northwest fruit growers think of Taiwan as an economic powerhouse, an ally in the Pacific Rim, and a market for fresh fruit, notably apples, cherries, pears, and stone fruit. Over the past several years, our trade relations with this country of about 23 million people have been strained due to the continuing threat of market closure resulting from quarantine concerns involving codling moth arriving in U.S. apples. Straddling the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan is not thought of as a significant producer of deciduous tree fruit or as a location in the world that would be commercially concerned with a […]