MOF reports semiconductor-equipment imports jumped 69.3% to US$40.1bn in 2025.
Taiwan’s semiconductor-equipment import surge captures the investment side of the AI hardware cycle. The category rose faster than overall capital-goods imports and accounted for nearly 38% of the capital-goods import total in 2025. The official MOF summary supports the before-and-after surge, but it does not provide a public country-source split in the accessible table.
Source 1: Annual External Trade Report in 2025
Publisher: Ministry of Finance, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Dataset/table: Major import commodities, 2025
Units: US$ billion; percent
Date checked: 2026-05-07
Status: verified
Note: MOF reports capital-goods imports of US$105.7bn and semiconductor-equipment imports up US$16.4bn or 69.3% to US$40.1bn.
Official MOF data support the import value and growth rate. The originally requested country-source angle was not used because an official public country split was not recovered.
MOF reports capital-goods imports of US$105.7bn and semiconductor-equipment imports up US$16.4bn or 69.3% to US$40.1bn.
Values use Taiwan MOF’s 2025 external trade summary. 2024 values are back-calculated from the 2025 value and stated increase. The display uses a before/after comparison rather than source-country ranking because the public MOF summary does not expose the country split.
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