{"id":15876,"date":"2025-07-24T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=15876"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:25:34","slug":"taiwans-industrial-production-surges-22-6-on-ai-demand-tariff-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/taiwans-industrial-production-surges-22-6-on-ai-demand-tariff-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s Industrial Production Surges 22.6% on AI Demand, Tariff Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15876\" class=\"elementor elementor-15876\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"penci-section penci-disSticky penci-structure-10 elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-27342b38 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"27342b38\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-100 penci-ercol-order-1 penci-sticky-ct    elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-36c21c21\" data-id=\"36c21c21\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16efda46 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"16efda46\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Taiwan\u2019s industrial production index jumped 22.6% year-on-year in June to<br \/>120.18, fuelled by strong demand for AI servers and pre-tariff shipment<br \/>front-loading, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reported.<br \/>The manufacturing index, which makes up over 94% of the total, rose<br \/>24%\u2014its 15th straight month of growth\u2014exceeding official forecasts. From<br \/>January to May, industrial and manufacturing output grew 16.39% and<br \/>17.43%, respectively.<br \/>Semiconductor production soared 38.1%, while electronic components rose<br \/>34.5% on robust demand for high-performance computing and AI. Computers<br \/>and optical components surged 89.3% year-on-year, driven by cloud and<br \/>server demand.<br \/>However, base metal output decreased by 6.3% due to maintenance<br \/>downtime, and car production declined by 16.3% due to plant shutdowns.<br \/>Chemical output declined 8.5% amid weak demand and Chinese price<br \/>competition.<br \/>Officials expect manufacturing to grow 23.6%\u201327.8% in July, pushing H1<br \/>industrial growth to 18.5%\u201319.2%\u2014the strongest since 2010.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s industrial production index jumped 22.6% year-on-year in June to120.18, fuelled by strong demand for AI servers and pre-tariff shipmentfront-loading, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reported.The manufacturing index, which makes&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15881,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876\/revisions\/15881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}