Home / Taiwan Excellence Award / Selection

Please refer to the Notes on Taiwan Excellence Award Selection

1. Taiwanese Business (foreign enterprises or branch offices of foreign companies not eligible)
2. With a registered trademark
3. The submitted product must be a commercial product that will be in mass production within 3 years (excluding food and pharmaceutical products)
4. Has already applied for or received approval/certification
5. Either manufactured or developed in Taiwan

Any subsidiary established in Taiwan or invested by a foreign enterprise will not be eligible for the award, even if the subsidiary has been registered in Taiwan under a different company name.

The NT$ 3,000 registration fee includes tax, and applicants will receive a triplicate uniform invoice sent along with an official notification to inform the applicant to submit the entry for on-spot evaluation via registered mail.

Yes; as long as the product has been developed in Taiwan. Be sure to provide substantiating documentations detailing your company’s organization chart as proof of your company’s R&D capabilities

Any one of the three will suffice.

1. Export or substantiating documentation (i.e., Export Declaration) signed by Customs
2. Certificate of Origin(https://www.taiwanorigin.org.tw)
3. MIT Logo (https://www.mittw.org.tw)

You can apply for a Certificate of Origin from the Bureau of Foreign Trade. For details on the application, refer to (https://www.taiwanorigin.org.tw/)

Yes they are, and they can be downloaded via the registration system. Be sure to affix your company stamp on these documentations

Simply go to the Department of Commerce’s website and search for registered business/factory registration and print a copy of your company status

Company search on the Department of Commerce’s website: https://gcis.nat.gov.tw/pub/cmpy/cmpyInfoListAction.do

Factory registration search: https://gcis.nat.gov.tw/Fidbweb/index.jsp

Please go to the Intellectual Property Office’s website and search for your registration data and print a copy of the screen (the image must show your registered trademark)

Trademark search: https://tmsearch.tipo.gov.tw/TIPO_DR/index.jsp

You only need to submit the substantiating documentations for your company’s registered trademark in Taiwan

We are sorry but that would make you ineligible; please apply for your company’s trademark

Different certifications are available for different industries, and you may submit either foreign or domestic certification (the page from the report that shows the result of certification). For example:

Certifications: such as ISO, UL
; Verification: TÜV Rheinland, SGS and so forth

Yes, and any of the following will suffice:

Local/foreign certification/verification

1. Product (including manufacturing material, parts for assembly) certification
2. Company/manufacturing facility certification, such as ISO

Special circumstances that would not require certification:

1. Products such as information software that do not require certification
2. Products that do not require registration must be submitted together with relevant substantiating documentation issued by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspections

Those products do not require certification because no inspection certification exists for the manufacturing of information software

Please contact the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspections and check if your product requires certification; be sure to provide the official response from the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspections or a photocopy of the response from the Bureau

That will not be necessary; you only need to enclose the patent certificate in your application

It will not affect your eligibility as the aforementioned approval only matters for commercial promotion should it receive the award. If your entry were to be selected for the award and if you still do not have the aforementioned approval, your product will not appear in the product images hosted on the website. Only text descriptions and product features will be available

Special question 1: If I have a product that is manufactured by my company/factory but the trademark and logo belong to a partner company in a licensed agreement, can I still apply to take part in the selection?

If the license for the trademark is permanent and if your company is responsible for relevant marketing and promotion, yes. Please note that you will be required to submit a photocopy of the licensing agreement along with your submission.