On 22 January 2014, the Gazette of the Office of the President published № 7123, Amendment of Patent Law adds Articles 97-1~97-4; and revisions to Article 143. According to an English language summary on the Legislative Yuan website, The essential points of the Amendments to the Patent Law are: • To specify that a patentee may apply to the customs to seize the imported goods which possibly infringe his or her patent right (Article 97-1)• To provide…
On October 9, 2013, the Customs Administration announced that Customs officers from Keelung Customs had processed the high-speed passenger liner “Hai Xia Hao” and its 240 passengers and 25 crew members. The “Hai Xia Hao” had made its first cross-strait crossing from Pingtan City in Fujian Province on the Mainland. To facilitate passenger clearance, in addition to the 8 customs officers stationed at Taipei Port, a set of X-ray inspection instrument and two detector dog…
In July 2013, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) announced that in the latter part of April the Executive Yuan approved the Free Economic Pilot Zone Plan, proposed by the CEPD, at the same time setting up a Free Economic Pilot Zone Promotion Task Force. The Free Economic Pilot Zone Plan in intended to accelerate the country’s progress toward economic liberalization. The main objectives of the pilot zones are to relax regulations and…
On September 9, 2013, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) announced that A partial revision of the Customs Act passed recently by the Legislative Yuan provides for the establishment of the Customs-Port-Trade (CPT) Single Window, by integrating Customs Clearance System of the Ministry of Finance (MOF), MTNet of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and Trade Facilitation eNet of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. This will greatly simplify import and export procedures once…
On August 1, 2013, the Ministry of Finance reported that Taichung Customs x-rayed four containers from China that contained furniture and discovered 240 boxes of shredded mushrooms concealed within 21 pieces of furniture in one of the containers. Four customs offices were needed to pry the solid tabletops (which were very heavy) which concealed the mushrooms under the interlayer. The 240 boxes of shredded mushrooms weighed 3.9 tons and had an estimated market price of…