{"id":169313,"date":"2025-11-08T06:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/169313\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:58:11","slug":"exports-soar-49-7-to-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/169313\/","title":{"rendered":"Exports soar 49.7% to all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"as boxTitle boxText\" data-desc=\"\u5206\u4eab\u5217\">\n<li>\n<p>By Crystal Hsu  \/  Staff reporter<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s exports soared to an all-time high of US$61.8 billion last month, surging 49.7 percent from a year earlier, as the global frenzy for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and new consumer electronics powered shipments of high-tech goods, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time exports had exceeded the US$60 billion mark, fueled by the global boom in AI development that has significantly boosted Taiwanese companies across the international supply chain, Department of Statistics Director-General Beatrice Tsai (\u8521\u7f8e\u5a1c) told a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a consensus among major AI players that the upcycle is still in its early stage,\u201d Tsai said. \u201cTaiwan\u2019s exports are likely to expand another 35 to 40 percent in November, with a bright outlook for December.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/P01-251108-601.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: CNA<\/p>\n<p>While Tsai declined to offer a forecast for next year, she said total exports this year would comfortably exceed US$600 billion, as cumulative shipments have already topped US$500 billion \u2014 surpassing the full-year total for last year.<\/p>\n<p>Information, communications and audiovisual products used in AI data centers led the growth, skyrocketing 140 percent to a record high, while electronic components, mainly semiconductors, advanced 27.7 percent, a ministry report showed.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the two categories accounted for nearly 80 percent of total export growth, Tsai said.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to the US surged to US$21.14 billion, more than twice last year\u2019s level, giving it a commanding 34.2 percent share of total shipments \u2014 well above China\u2019s 23.2 percent \u2014 as local firms increasingly aligned with US partners in the fast-evolving AI ecosystem while trimming exposure to China.<\/p>\n<p>European markets also demonstrated solid growth, with shipments rising 26.2 percent amid strong AI-related investments in Finland and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to ASEAN nations rose 40 percent year-on-year, reflecting the region\u2019s growing role in the technology supply chain, Tsai said.<\/p>\n<p>Imports climbed 14.6 percent to US$39.22 billion last month, driven by increasing trade within the AI supply chain. South Korean firms are supplying high-bandwidth memory chips that stack multiple DRAM dies vertically to boost data transfer speeds, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The latest trade figures gave Taiwan a record trade surplus of US$22.58 billion, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>In the first 10 months of this year, exports rose 31.8 percent to US$514.45 billion, while imports rose 21.3 percent to US$392.63 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Exports are expected to remain supported by sustained AI and high-performance computing demand, expanding data center infrastructure, new product launches and year-end holiday sales in Western markets, Tsai said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ministry cautioned that shifts in global trade policies and geopolitical tensions could pose risks to export momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Crystal Hsu \/ Staff reporter Taiwan\u2019s exports soared to an all-time high of US$61.8 billion last month,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,19,17,11689,11688],"class_list":{"0":"post-169313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-the-taipei-times","14":"tag-11688"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115512784112259650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}