{"id":17544,"date":"2026-03-13T23:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=17544"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:46:43","slug":"tariff-deal-lifts-taiwan-manufacturing-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/tariff-deal-lifts-taiwan-manufacturing-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariff Deal Lifts Taiwan Manufacturing Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Taiwan\u2019s manufacturing sector strengthened last month, with the purchasing managers\u2019 index rising to 57.2, up 1.9 points and marking a fourth consecutive month of expansion, according to the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research. The non-manufacturing index climbed to 55.3, extending growth in services.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The improvement followed the conclusion of Taiwan-U.S. tariff negotiations, which set tariffs at 15 percent without stacking on most-favored nation rates and granted preferential treatment for semiconductors and related products. The removal of policy uncertainty boosted business confidence, with forward-looking indicators turning broadly positive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>All six major manufacturing industries expanded, and the six-month outlook index jumped to 61, the strongest pace since early 2022. Electronics and optical products led gains on sustained artificial intelligence demand, while memory tightness supported advanced component orders.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Services remained resilient, led by hospitality, finance, and logistics. However, basic materials producers continued to face pressure from 50 percent tariffs, and retail activity remained cautious.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s manufacturing sector strengthened last month, with the purchasing managers\u2019 index rising to 57.2, up 1.9 points and marking a fourth consecutive month of expansion, according to the Chung-Hua Institution&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17547,"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\/17544"}],"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=17544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17550,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions\/17550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}