Staff writer, with CNA
The domestic production share of export orders received by Taiwanese companies rose to a record 52.9 percent last year, while the combined share produced in China and Hong Kong fell below 30 percent for the first time, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said yesterday.The decline was mainly attributed to US-China trade tensions, which have prompted Taiwanese businesses to gradually relocate production back to Taiwan or expand their manufacturing operations outside China, the ministry said in a report on its annual survey of the overseas production of export orders.The survey showed that the domestic production ratio rose 1.6 percentage points from 2024, as strong artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing demand drove growth in semiconductor manufacturing and server orders, which are mostly produced in Taiwan.
Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Keelung on June 18.
Meanwhile, the share produced in China and Hong Kong fell 6.9 percentage points to 26.2 percent, while ASEAN’s share rose 2.1 percentage points to a record 11.3 percent, led by Vietnam at 4.5 percent.Self-production, including output by subsidiaries and affiliated companies, remained the dominant category at 78.4 percent of export orders, though the share fell 4.2 percentage points from a year earlier, the survey indicated.
