Machinery and electrical goods dominate Taiwan’s net export surplus.
Machinery including computers generated a reported US$140.3bn product surplus in 2025, while electrical machinery generated US$92.4bn. The next categories are far smaller. This concentration makes the surplus story different from a broad export-diversification story.
Source 1: Taiwan's Top 10 Exports
Publisher: World's Top Exports, citing trade datasets
Dataset/table: Products generating best trade surpluses and worst trade deficits, 2025
Units: US dollars; percent
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Evidence: Lists Taiwan 2025 product-level surplus and deficit categories, citing trade-map style sources.
Note: Lists Taiwan 2025 product-level surplus and deficit categories, citing trade-map style sources.
Product surplus values come from secondary trade analysis citing trade datasets, not directly from MOF tables; source-labelled only.
Rank product categories by positive net exports, i.e. exports minus imports.
Secondary product-level surplus source; official MOF or ITC extraction recommended for verified status.
Taiwan goods trade-deficit categories, 2025
Mineral fuels were Taiwan’s largest product trade deficit.
Taiwan re-export versus domestic-export value
2025 goods exports were US$640.7B; official trade-stat coverage excludes re-exports.
Taiwan top-country trade-balance map without map
In 2025 Taiwan ran a US$150.1B surplus with the U.S. and a US$37.0B deficit with Korea.