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<text id=93CT1436>
<title>
Taiwan--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Taiwan
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Taiwan has a dynamic capitalist economy with
considerable government guidance of investment and foreign trade
and partial government ownership of some large banks and
industrial firms. Real growth in GNP has averaged about 9% a
year during the past three decades. Export growth has been even
faster and has provided the impetus for industrialization.
Agriculture contributes about 4% to GNP, down from 35% in 1952.
Taiwan currently ranks as number 13 among major trading
countries. Traditional labor-intensive industries are steadily
being replaced with more capital- and technology-intensive
industries. Taiwan has become a major investor in China,
Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. The
tightening of labor markets has led to an influx of foreign
workers, both legal and illegal.
</p>
<p>National product: GNP - purchasing power equivalent - $209
billion (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 6.7% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $10,000 (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.4% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 1.6% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $30.3 billion; expenditures $30.1 billion,
including capital expenditures of $NA (FY91 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $82.4 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: electrical machinery 18.5%, textiles 14.7%,
general machinery and equipment 17.7%, footwear 4.5%, foodstuffs
1.1%, plywood and wood products 1.1% (1992 est.)</l>
<l> partners: US 29.1%, Hong Kong 18.7%, EC countries 17.1%
(1992 est.)</l>
<l>Imports: $72.1 billion (c.i.f., 1992 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: machinery and equipment 15.8%, chemicals
10.0%, crude oil 4.2%, foodstuffs 2.1% (1992 est.)</l>
<l> partners: Japan 30.3%, US 21.9%, EC countries 17.1% (1992
est.)</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $620 million (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 6.5% (1992 est.); accounts
for more than 40% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 18,382,000 kW capacity; 98,500 million kWh
produced, 4,718 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: electronics, textiles, chemicals, clothing, food
processing, plywood, sugar milling, cement, shipbuilding,
petroleum refining
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 4% of GNP and 16% of labor force
(includes part-time farmers); heavily subsidized sector; major
crops - vegetables, rice, fruit, tea; livestock - hogs, poultry,
beef, milk; not self-sufficient in wheat, soybeans, corn; fish
catch increasing, reached 1.4 million metric tons in 1988
</p>
<p>Illicit drugs: an important heroin transit point; also a major
drug money laundering center
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US, including Ex-Im (FY46-82), $4.6 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $500 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 New Taiwan dollar (NT$)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: New Taiwan dollars per US$1 - 25.125 (1992
est.), 25.748 (1991), 27.108 (1990), 26.407 (1989) 28.589
(1988), 31.845 (1987)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June
</p></body></article></text>