Kansas, Taiwan OK pact for beef hides

A $420 million trade deal with Taiwan for cattle hides will be expected to mean more than $130 million to Kansas producers, officials said Monday.

The deal will send from between 5 million and 6 million hides to Taiwanese tanneries for the next two years.

Since 1995, Taiwan has been the sixth-largest overseas market for American agricultural products, the second-largest per-capita consumer of U.S. agricultural products, and the third-largest market for U.S. cattle hides, officials said.