Ministry of Finance announced the export statistic of January 2014, it found that the export valued at 24,310 NT$ dollar 5.3% lower than in the same period of last year. The electronic industry remains the main export products. However, it is anticipated that the export value in the first semester of this year would increase at 0.3%
Yeh Maan-tzwu (葉滿足), director of the Ministry of Finance’s statistics department anticipated that in the first semester of 2014, the export value would increase 0.3% due to few working days in January 2014. However, the export value to Japan and United State of America and Europe has been found to be higher even if exports to mainland of China dropped because of more working days in February. The import in January 2014 valued at 21,340 NT$ dollar which is 15.2% drop.