According to WTO report, Taiwan exports rank 14th-largest in 2002

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Taiwan exports in 2002 were worth US$135.1 billion, making the island the world's 14th-largest exporter and the fifth-largest in Asia, according to a report by the World Trade Organization.

The figure was up by 7 percent from the country's 2001 level, the WTO 2003 report on foreign trade statistics showed. At the same time, Taiwan was the world's 16th-largest importer by having bought products worth US$112.6 billion last year, retaining its 2001 ranking. The country's 2002 import volume was up by 5 percent from its 2001 level.

In terms of service-oriented foreign trade, Taiwan exports reached US$21.1 billion in 2002, globally ranked 21st, while its imports stood at US$24.3 billion, the world's 15th. Among Asian states, Japan remained as the region's largest foreign trader, followed by China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, the report said. Except for South Korea, the foreign trade growth rates posted by Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, are all lower than the region's average growth rate.

http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/2003/11/07/1068168304.htm

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1. Has Tiwan shown any signs of improving standerds of living?

Yet?

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2. All standards have gone up sharply; air, water, pollution, litter, traffic

leisure time (before they worked gov. (KMT) mandatory 6 days and about half the country was forced or fired to work 7 days a week.) Wages have increased. Unemployment edged up to about 4.5 percent which is crisis stages for them. Until President Chen took over you'd never see the blue sky.