Former US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, tries bubble tea at Kung Fu Tea inside the Queens Crossing mall in New York City on April 17, 2016. Photo: AFP
The US for the first time became Taiwan’s largest market for exports of agricultural products, with outbound shipments in the first quarter surging 33.3 percent to US$23.2 million from a year earlier, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said yesterday.