A Study on the Current Situation and Trend of Taiwan's Trade Structural Imbalance with the United States and Japan

Abstract

The performance of structural trade imbalance 1. The trade surplus with the United States and the trade deficit with Japan coexist, and both have a tendency to grow rapidly. From 1980 to June 1987, the cumulative balance of Taiwan's trade surplus with the United States reached 57.7 billion US dollars, which was 24.3 billion US dollars higher than Taiwan's total foreign trade surplus in the same period. Among them, the annual trade surplus with the United States was: 2.1 billion US dollars in 1980, 9.8 billion US dollars in 1984, 13.6 billion US dollars in 1986 and 7.9 billion US dollars in the first half of 1987. Compared with the same period in the first half of the year, the annual growth rate of the trade surplus with the United States reached 1982.