Taiwan received export orders worth US$31.260 billion in November 2009, decreasing 1.56% sequentially but increasing 37.11% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on December 23.
IT/communication and electronic products were the top two categories in terms of export order value, with the former recording US$8.578 billion in November and US$71.121 billion in January-November and the latter US$7.591 billion and US$70.652 billion respectively.
The total export order value of US$290.715 billion for January-November decreased by 12.15% from the same period of 2008.
MOEA also released statistics on Taiwan's industrial production (manufacturing, quarry & mining, construction, electricity/gas/water supply industries) indexes, with November production value dropping 1.24% sequentially but rising 31.46% on year and January-November production value dropping 12.39% on year.
| MOEA: Taiwan export orders by market, November 2009 (US$b) | ||||||
| Market | November | January-November | ||||
| Amount | Proportion | Y/Y | Amount | Proportion | Y/Y | |
| China (including Hong Kong) | 7.881 | 25.21% | 73.32% | 77.377 | 26.62% | (17.37%) |
| US | 6.869 | 21.97% | 28.27% | 65.799 | 22.63% | (13.86%) |
| Europe | 5.979 | 19.13% | 14.74% | 52.071 | 17.91% | (16.78%) |
| Japan | 3.830 | 12.25% | 23.39% | 30.888 | 10.62% | (11.17%) |
Source: MOEA, compiled by Digitimes, December 2009
