00:00Take a leisurely stroll down any grocery store aisle in Taiwan and you'll find a bevy of peanut products.
00:07From cooking oils to snacks, peanuts come in all forms here.
00:11Three out of four peanut products in Taiwan are produced locally, but farmers are worried that might change soon.
00:19Taipei recently signed a reciprocal trade agreement with the U.S., which will lower Taiwan's tariffs on some imported American
00:26goods to zero.
00:27That includes peanuts.
00:30Though the trade agreement has yet to take effect, farmers are worried that if it does, then cheap American peanuts
00:35will flood the market.
00:41Agriculture officials are trying to downplay that possibility, saying that if anything, it's the other countries that export peanuts to
00:48Taiwan that will have to compete with American market share.
01:01The agriculture ministry says it will help any peanut farmer struggling because of the new policy to transition to other
01:08more profitable crops.
01:10But the immediate problem farmers face is whether they can sell peanuts instead of working for peanuts.
01:16Alex Chun and Leslie Liao for Taiwan Plus.
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