Mineral fuels were Taiwan’s largest product trade deficit.
Mineral fuels and oil produced the largest listed deficit at US$35.6bn in 2025. Optical/technical/medical apparatus was the next largest at US$10.2bn. The ranking underlines Taiwan’s structural exposure to imported energy even during a record export-surplus year.
Source 1: Taiwan's Top 10 Exports
Publisher: World's Top Exports, citing trade datasets
Dataset/table: Products generating best trade surpluses and worst trade deficits, 2025
Units: US dollars; percent
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Evidence: Lists Taiwan 2025 product-level surplus and deficit categories, citing trade-map style sources.
Note: Lists Taiwan 2025 product-level surplus and deficit categories, citing trade-map style sources.
Product deficit values come from secondary trade analysis citing trade datasets, not directly from MOF tables; source-labelled only.
Rank product categories by positive deficit values, i.e. imports minus exports.
Secondary product-level deficit source; official MOF or ITC extraction recommended for verified status.
Taiwan goods trade-surplus categories, 2025
Machinery and electrical goods dominate Taiwan’s net export surplus.
Taiwan re-export versus domestic-export value
2025 goods exports were US$640.7B; official trade-stat coverage excludes re-exports.
Taiwan’s largest naphtha import sources
Naphtha was 60% of Taiwan’s petroleum-product imports; Russia supplied 49% of naphtha.