Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/04
By: Tsai Yi-chu and Frances Huang
Taipei, July 4 (CNA) Nearly 60 percent of Taiwanese manufacturers expected their exports to 
rise in the second half of the year amid improved economic sentiment at home and abroad, according to a Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER, 中經院) survey.
The economic think tank said 59.8 percent of the polled manufacturers in its semi-annual survey said their exports would increase in the coming six months, up from 45.2 percent who felt that way in a similar survey conducted six months ago.
About one in six respondents (16.1 percent) said they expected their outbound sales to fall, compared with 26.8 percent who were pessimistic in the previous survey.
CIER President Wu Chung-shu (吳中書) said that although Taiwan’s exports have been haunted by weak global demand, a majority of local manufacturers now believe the situation will improve. [FULL STORY]
