TAIWAN COSMETICS SECTOR STAYS ROBUST BUT CHALLENGED BY REGULATORY HEADACHES
August 1st, 2017
TAIWAN, a now a high-income economy with a population of 23.6 million and a per capita income of USD22,453 in 2016, (International Monetary Fund figures), has been witnessing robust growth in its cosmetics and personal care products manufacturing. In 2016, this grew by 5.99% year-on-year to Taiwan dollars TWD21.1 billion (USD700 million), according to an estimate by the Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK), a Hsinchu-based public-initiated think tank.
While Taiwan’s personal care manufacturing sector focuses especially on contract work for ...
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