By Meryl Kao / Staff reporter Purchases of fixed assets in the domestic manufacturing sector in the fourth quarter last year posted a 69.1 percent increase to NT$695.2 billion (US$21.39 billion) from a year earlier, accelerating from the 26.8 percent increase the previous quarter, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reported on Thursday last week. On
By Chen Cheng-hui / Staff reporter Taiwan’s machinery industry is bracing for a sharp fall in exports as hefty US tariffs would interrupt local manufacturers’ sales to their biggest overseas market, the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI, 台灣機械公會) said yesterday. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a 32 percent reciprocal tariff on Taiwanese
PATENT BOOM: Although Hon Hai only filed for 259 patents last year, compared with TSMC’s 1,412 applications, it was still a 93 percent increase for the iPhone assembler Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) applied for the most patents of any company in Taiwan for the ninth consecutive year last year, data released on Saturday