Declining Export Trend In Taiwan Textile Machinery

The Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) revealed statistics according to which, machinery exports of Taiwan amounted to US $8.557 billion in the first half of this year, up 12.4 percent than in the same period last year.

The category of machine tools ranked first in terms of largest export items, with export value reaching US $1.921 billion, up 20.8 percent over the previous year. Special purpose machinery stood at the second place earning $679.93 million, up by 20.2 percent.

Textile machineries fetched $273.667 million, down by 16.4 percent while the category of sewing machines brought revenues amounting to $188.952 million, up 1.2 percent. Even leather and shoes making machineries earned $44.234 million, surging by 28 percent.

In terms of the largest export markets for these products, Hong Kong and mainland China together ranked first by consuming $2.47 billion worth of products from Taiwan in the first half of this year, representing a rise of 4.5 percent and accounting for 28.9 percent of the total exports.

US ranked second with $1.265 billion, down 0.9 percent and commanding 14.8 percent of the aggregate exports followed by Japan at the third place with $497.32 million, up 4.9 percent and accounting for 5.8 percent. The fourth place went to Vietnam with $341.16 million, up 53.8 percent while Germany stood fifth with $320.97 million, up 30.7 percent. Thailand was the sixth-largest export outlet with $266.45 million, up 0.3 percent.

Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Italy, Turkey, South Korea, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Singapore, Brazil, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, Finland, United Arab Emirate, the Philippines, Russia, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia were some of the other key export destinations for Taiwanese machineries.

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