Agricultural Development Act Article 53

In maintaining the order of production and marketing and ensuring fair trade of imported agricultural products, the central competent authority may, in concert with the competent authorities of finance and trade, adopt tariff rate quota measures, special safeguard and other measures in accordance with applicable regime; or shall designate an agency responsible for importation matters, if necessary.In the event that the exporting country of agricultural trade designates an agency handling export matters of a certain agricultural product to Taiwan, the central competent authority may, in concert with the competent authorities of trade, designate or establish a counterpart agency to handle the importation of the agricultural products of the exporting country.