NA

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

NA

Stock of money:

NA

Stock of quasi money:

NA

Stock of domestic credit:

Agriculture - products:

rice, corn, vegetables, fruit, tea; pigs, poultry, beef, milk; fish

Industries:

electronics, petroleum refining, armaments, chemicals, textiles, iron and steel, machinery, cement, food processing, vehicles, consumer products, pharmaceuticals

Industrial production growth rate:

9.2% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

216.6 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

208.7 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 71.4% hydro: 6% nuclear: 22.6% other: 0% (2001)

Oil - production:

10,600 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

950,500 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

289,200 bbl/day (2006)

Oil - imports:

1.208 million bbl/day (2006)

Oil - proved reserves:

2.38 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

400 million cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

11.3 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

10.9 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

6.229 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

$32.88 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$246.5 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

electronic and electrical products, metals, textiles, plastics, chemicals, auto parts (2002)

Exports - partners:

China 32.6%, US 12.9%, Hong Kong 8.6%, Japan 6.4%, Singapore 5% (2007)

Imports:

$215.1 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

electronic and electrical products, machinery, petroleum, precision instruments, organic chemicals, metals (2002)

Imports - partners:

Japan 22.7%, US 13.3%, China 11.2%, South Korea 6.6%, Saudi Arabia 4.8%, Singapore 4.6% (2007)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$275 billion (31 December 2007)

Debt - external:

$97.85 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$92.83 billion (2007)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

$108.9 billion (2007)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$654 billion (28 December 2007)

Currency (code):

New Taiwan dollar (TWD)

Currency code: