Five supplier economies supplied about 82.3% of Taiwan’s 2025 semiconductor-equipment imports.
Taiwan’s semiconductor-equipment imports are concentrated in a small set of supplier economies. In MOF’s 2025 selected-commodity table, Japan, the United States, the Netherlands, Malaysia and Singapore together supplied about 82.3% of the US$40.1bn semiconductor-equipment import line. The concentration matters because wafer-fab expansion is not only a domestic capex story; it also depends on foreign tool supply and country-specific equipment ecosystems.
Source 1: Monthly Statistics of Exports and Imports, Dec. 2025
Publisher: Ministry of Finance, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Dataset/table: Tables 3-1, 3-2, 9; export totals
Units: US$ million / US$ thousand / TEU where stated
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Status: official_source
Uses MOF selected commodity “semiconductor equipment”; this is broader than only wafer-manufacturing machines. Values are annual 2025 imports by source economy.
Rank supplier economies by the annual “semiconductor equipment” selected-commodity import line in MOF Table 9 and calculate shares against the total value.
Official MOF/TIPC data; ratios calculated from official table values.
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