Electronic-product orders were about 131% of electronic-parts customs exports in 2025.
Taiwan export orders are often used as a demand signal, but the orders do not always become customs exports from Taiwan. Comparing orders with shipped customs exports shows where overseas production or timing gaps may be larger. The electronics line has a much wider orders-to-exports ratio than ICT, which makes the caveat visible rather than buried in methodology.
Source 1: Annual External Trade Report in 2025
Publisher: Ministry of Finance, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Dataset/table: 2025 external trade report; commodity and market tables
Units: US dollars; percent; exports/imports
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Evidence: Reports Taiwan 2025 exports/imports, major commodity values and shares, major market shares, and semiconductor-equipment import context.
Note: Reports Taiwan 2025 exports/imports, major commodity values and shares, major market shares, and semiconductor-equipment import context.
Source 2: Taiwan's export orders hit new high in 2025 on AI boom
Publisher: Focus Taiwan / Ministry of Economic Affairs
Dataset/table: MOEA 2025 export orders by sector reported by CNA/Focus Taiwan
Units: US dollars; percent growth; export orders
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Evidence: Reports 2025 export orders of US$233.42bn for information/communications products and US$291.62bn for electronic products.
Note: Reports 2025 export orders of US$233.42bn for information/communications products and US$291.62bn for electronic products.
Categories are comparable but not identical. MOEA explicitly warns that export orders are not always exported from Taiwan because of overseas production.
Compute orders-to-exports ratios by dividing MOEA-reported 2025 export orders by comparable MOF customs export categories: ICT orders divided by ICT/audio-video product exports, and electronic-product orders divided by parts-of-electronic-product exports.
Uses MOEA order categories and MOF customs export categories; source-labelled due to cross-series comparison.
Taiwan export orders versus customs exports, 2025
Export orders were US$743.7bn, about 1.16 times customs exports.
Taiwan electronics export concentration, 2025
ICT products plus electronic parts accounted for 74% of goods exports in 2025.
Taiwan China/HK product exposure, 2025
Electronic parts sent about 50.9% of their 2025 export value to China/HK.