Japan, the Netherlands and the U.S. led Taiwan’s wafer-fabrication tool imports.
Wafer-fabrication equipment is a narrower slice of the semiconductor-tool chain. Taiwan’s 2024 import pattern shows high dependence on the same countries that dominate leading-edge lithography, deposition, etch and related factory tools. The ranking makes the capital-equipment dependency visible without mixing it with broader electronics imports.
Source 1: Monthly Statistics of Exports and Imports, Dec. 2024: Table 9
Publisher: Ministry of Finance, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Dataset/table: Table 9 Imports by Selected Commodity and Country
Units: US$ thousand
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Evidence: The workbook gives 2024 import values by selected commodity and country of origin.
Note: The workbook gives 2024 import values by selected commodity and country of origin.
Source 2: Dec. 2024 Monthly Statistics of Exports and Imports e-book page
Publisher: Ministry of Finance, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Dataset/table: E-books page for Dec. 2024 external trade tables
Units: metadata / links
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Evidence: The page documents the Dec. 2024 monthly trade publication and Table 9 download path.
Note: The page documents the Dec. 2024 monthly trade publication and Table 9 download path.
This official commodity line is deeper than the broad semiconductor-equipment line, but it remains a selected customs grouping rather than a single public HS code in the page copy.
Values use Taiwan MOF Table 9, “Machines and Apparatus for the Manufacture of Semiconductor Boules or Wafers, Semiconductor Devices, Electronic Integrated Circuits or Flat Panel Displays.” Values are 2024 cumulative imports in US$ million.
All visible ranking values use the same 2024 source table unless otherwise noted in data_notes and research_warnings.
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