Eastern Asia big name Taiwan exports in the month of April pushed slightly above March levels to set a single high due to strong global demand for many countries high technical products and the rising prices of oil worldwide and raw materials as well to the Ministry of Finance said, and Taiwan exports totaled US$28.33 billion in the month of April 2011, up 0.3 percent from the month of March 2011, and imports amounted to US$24.38 billion, down 4.4 percent from the last month but still the third highest number on record find it, Taiwan recorded a trade surplus of US$2.97 billion in the month of April as the ministry said.
Director of the Ministry of Finance Lin Li-Chen Department of Statistics, said that exports in the first four months totaled US$101.13 billion, and up 20.7 percent from the same period last year as well, imports in the first four months totaled US$93.63 billion, up 22.9 percent on a yearly basis, both exports and imports in the four months set the record again highs compared with the same period in the previous years 2010.
Eastern Taiwan top 10 export items except for optoelectronic products, all experienced double digit growth on a yearly basis in the month of April 2011, with information and communications items up 71.4 percent, mineral products up 67.8 percent, and machinery up 42.5 percent find it, Lin Li Chen said that electronics and machinery exports also set single month of highs in April at US$7.34 billion and US$1.82 billion, respectively made it, and though China remained Taiwan top export market in again in month of April, and exports to the six major Asian nations set a new single month high at US$4.42 billion, and exports to the U.S.A totaled US$3.24 billion, the highest in a month since September in the year of 2001.
