Electronic-parts exports were 5.6x semiconductor-equipment imports in 2025.
This statistic links Taiwan’s chip-output trade scale to the equipment imported to expand or refresh capacity. The Ministry of Finance reported record electronic-parts exports and a sharp rise in semiconductor-equipment imports in 2025. The export side is a chip-heavy commodity group, not a pure integrated-circuit export total. Even with that caveat, the ratio shows how large current output trade is relative to one year’s capacity-building imports.
Source 1: Overview of Taiwan Export and Import Trade in 2025
Publisher: Taiwan Ministry of Finance
Dataset/table: Annual export and import trade overview, 2025
Units: US$ billions and percent
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Evidence: Reports 2025 ICT/audio-video exports, electronic-parts exports, equipment imports and export markets.
Note: Reports 2025 ICT/audio-video exports, electronic-parts exports, equipment imports and export markets.
Parts of Electronic Product is used as the official export-side commodity group. The report gives the integrated-circuit export increase but not a separate total integrated-circuit export value in the cited text.
Use Ministry of Finance 2025 Parts of Electronic Product exports and Semiconductor Equipment import value. Divide export value by equipment-import value. Include the Ministry of Finance-reported integrated-circuit export increase as support context.
Both values come from the same MOF annual trade report, but the export category is broader than pure integrated circuits.
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