Accordingly, the average price of imported tea was estimated at US$ 2,473.2 per ton.
Vietnam is the leading tea provider of Taiwan.
In the first nine months of the year, the S- shaped country exported approximately 14, 200 tons of tea to this market, worth US$ 22.55 million, an increase of 6.1 percent in volume and 8.3 percent in value compared with the same period of last year.
The average price of imported tea from Vietnam was US$ 1,585.5 per ton, up 2 percent over the same period in 2018.
In the first nine months, Taiwan imported 7,500 tons of green tea, worth US$ 20.5 million.
The territory imported green tea mostly from Vietnam and Japan; specifically, import from Vietnam accounted for 84.1 percent of the total imported green tea to Taiwan and green tea import from Japan accounted for 13 percent.