TRADE TENSIONS Output fell for a third consecutive quarter as electronics components, the manufacturing sector’s key industry, slid 3.81% last quarter, the MOEA said
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 20, 2019
By: Natasha Li / Staff reporter
Manufacturing output last quarter declined for a third straight quarter, shrinking 7.01 percent year-
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Karen Yu, center, speaks during a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday about Taiwanese firms returning to invest in the nation. She was joined by Tamkang University industrial economics professor Tsai Ming-fang, left, and Emile Chang, director-general of the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Department of Investment Services.
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While the manufacturing sector would continue to bear the weight of the trade tensions, companies’ relocating their production back to Taiwan, new technologies and various applications, including 5G, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, could help drive up output going forward, the ministry said.
The decline in output last quarter was led by the electronics components industry — the manufacturing sector’s most important industry — which slid 3.81 percent to NT$940.6 billion, it said.
LCD production, for one, declined as the market remained oversaturated due to increasing Chinese supplies, it said. [FULL STORY]
