At a glance
| Booth | Q6158 |
| Country | CA |
| Website | www.international.gc.ca/country-pays/taiwan/taipei.aspx?lang=eng |
Company profile
The Canadian Trade Office in Taipei represents Canadian interests in Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic relations, and it has operated since 1986. The office states that it now delivers the same range of mission services that Canada provides through its other missions abroad. Its Trade and Investment section houses the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service and gives export-ready Canadian businesses personalized, single-window access to information, insights, and services for investment and business-development decisions. The commercial function also helps Canadian companies expand and succeed in Taiwan and provides information and services for Taiwanese companies that want to do business or invest in Canada. By championing Canadian products, services, and technologies to Taiwanese industry, the office identifies opportunities for bilateral cooperation, technology transfer, and collaboration in industrial research and development. The office presents Canada's highly educated and diverse workforce, R&D capabilities, entrepreneurial activity, and access to global markets as resources for companies considering investment, innovation, and technology development. Canada-Taiwan people-to-people links in the office's historical account reach back to 1871, when a Canadian Presbyterian missionary arrived in Taiwan. The office describes the modern relationship as extending across commercial and cultural ties, education and youth mobility, scientific research, artistic exchange, and Indigenous cultural, advocacy, research, and policy collaboration. Under Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy, the office describes Canada as pursuing multifaceted engagement with Taiwan, including science collaboration and mobility for Taiwanese students and young people. Since September 2024, Canada has participated as a full partner in the Global Cooperation and Training Framework, which the office describes as supporting exchanges on disaster response, cybersecurity, women's empowerment, media literacy, and public health. The office also supports cultural diplomacy, including activity involving Indigenous, francophone, and contemporary Canadian creators, with the stated goals of mutual understanding, institutional collaboration, and stronger people-to-people ties. Commercial milestones described by the office include a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Arrangement and a Collaborative Framework on Supply Chains Resilience completed in 2023. A Science, Technology and Innovation Arrangement signed in 2024 is described as enabling new programming and financing opportunities for co-innovation projects. Examples of Canadian technology and investment identified in Taiwan include the tuned mass damper in Taipei 101, offshore-wind investment, Bombardier trains on Taipei's Neihu MRT line, and Canadian-made aircraft used for offshore-island transport. The office also points to Canadian capabilities in artificial intelligence, clean technology, and natural resources as areas with potential for further collaboration related to the green transition. Alongside trade and investment work, the office provides services to Canadians visiting or living in Taiwan, and its service scope includes consular, citizenship, passport, notarial, and related support.
Exhibits
The office's service portfolio for Canadians includes guidance on international adoption and surrogacy, births abroad, citizenship, deaths abroad, marriage abroad, notarial matters, passports, pensions and retirement, studying abroad, visas and immigration, and voting while outside Canada. For citizenship services, the office provides a route for Canadian citizenship-certificate applications submitted from outside Canada and the United States, including paper-application handling where required. For marriage-related needs, it directs people seeking to register a marriage in Taiwan to the relevant Taiwanese household-registration procedures and civil-affairs information. Its notarial service is limited in scope: consular officials do not provide legal advice or represent a person in court, while specified in-person consular and notarial services are available to Canadian citizens by appointment. Passport support covers application procedures, online fee payment, in-person presentation where required, collection by the applicant or an authorized person, mail-back options, and reporting of lost or stolen passports. For pensions and retirement, the service directs Canadians to benefits information for people living abroad, while the study-abroad service points users toward education and research opportunities through Canadian programs. Visa and immigration information covers travel, study, work, and immigration to Canada, including biometric appointments, visa-office enquiries, and Permanent Resident Travel Document information. The service set also includes information on voting in Canadian elections while outside Canada, complementing the office's broader role of serving Canadians who visit or live in Taiwan. For companies, the most relevant offering remains the Trade Commissioner Service and the office's business-development support, which connects export-ready Canadian firms with market information and opportunities in Taiwan.
Capabilities and products
- Taiwan business-development support for Canadian companies
- Canadian investment and business information services
- Single-window advisory support for export-ready Canadian businesses
- Information on Canada–Taiwan technology transfer and industrial R&D cooperation opportunities
- Acceptance of Canadian citizenship certificate applications
- Assistance with Canadian passport applications and lost-passport replacement
- Consular document notarization and authentication for Canadian citizens
- Emergency consular assistance for Canadian citizens
- Information and guidance on Canadian visa and immigration applications
- Information on overseas education and research opportunities
- Information on retirement abroad and pensions
- Information on marriage procedures abroad
- Information on procedures following a death abroad
- Information on international adoption and procedures for bringing a child to Canada
- Information on voting abroad for Canadian citizens