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My comment:
(a) Taiwan's machine tool production and, in particular, export, has made great strides, parlaying nations's strong suit in electronics. Indeed, Taiwan banks on the industry as the next "pillar" of economic growth, after semiconductors, LCD display and photonics (LED and photovoltaics)--various specialities of electronics.
(b) For years, I know world export ranking as well as production and export values of Taiwan, based on news reports from Taiwan. Chinese are hungry for data, too. There are occasionally conflicting assertions (without datat to back them up) about quality and production/export of China's machine tools industry. News reports in US have documented Germany's booming export of machine tool to China, without financial details. However, I have failed to find statistics for other nations, including China's--until today.
(c) Lin Hui-chun and Frances Huang, Taiwan 6th-Largest Machine Tool Maker. Central News Agency, July 9, 2011
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201107090022
("output of Taiwan-made machine tools totaled US$3.8 billion (NT$109 billion) in 2010, up 67.8 percent from a year earlier. * * * Taiwan was the fourth-largest machine tool exporter, shipping US$3 billion-worth of products abroad, up 72.1 percent year-on-year.")
It has been the case for the past several years that Taiwan is the fourth place in export. What is encouraging is bound an d leap in production and export value, a trend that meshes with forecasts.
(d) One need not read the above news report, but proceed to read the primary material, on which the report is based. See next.
(e) 2011 World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey. Gardner Publications, Inc
http://www.gardnerweb.com/consump/survey.html
("Chinese dominance continues. China for years has been the largest consumer of machine tools, and in 2009 it became number-one producer, as well. For 2010 that leadership continues as the country makes substantial gains in shipments and increases its share to 30% of total world production. With a huge internal appetite, however, China keeps much of its output at home, and its machines are seen little in Western markets")
(i) Producer
.................................2010 Revenue (estimated) .............Change from 2009
1 China ...................19,980.0m ..........................................31%
2 Japan ..................11,841.7m ..........................................69%
3 Germany .............9,749.9m ............................................-10%
4 Italy ......................5,166.4m ............................................-1%
5 S Korea ...............4,498.0m ...........................................,63%
6 Taiwan ................3,803.3m ............................................68%
7 Switzerland .........2,185.4m ............................................1%
8 US ........................2,026.2m ............................................-9%
(ii) Exporters:
.................................$ 2010 (est) .......Change $ (y/y) .....Export (including re-export)/Production
1 Japan ..................7,832.7m............86% ........................66%
2 Germany .............6,623.6m ...........-9% .........................68%
3 Italy ......................3,298.5m............-1% .........................64%
4 Taiwan ................2,995.1m ...........72% ........................79%
5 Switzerland .........1,821.1m ...........-1% .........................83%
6 China ...................1,800.0m ...........28% ........................9%
7 S Korea ...............1,678.0m ............38% .......................37%
8 US ........................1,380.4. ..............12% .......................68%
(iii) Consumers
.................................2010 Revenue (estimated) .............Change from 2009
1 China ...................27,280.0m ..........................................38%
2 Germany .............5,033.9m .............................................-13%
3 Japan ...................4,445.3m ............................................37%
4 S Korea ...............4,264.0m .............................................59%
5 Italy .......................2,768.7m ............................................-1%
6 United States .......2,752.3m ...........................................-15%
7 India ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,740.0m ...........................................44%
8 Taiwan ..................1,505.5m ...........................................74%
(iv) Importers
.................................$ 2010 (est) .......Change $ (y/y).....Import (including that for re-export)/Consumption
1 China ...................9,100.0m..............54% .....................33%
2 US.........................2,106.5m .............-7% ......................77%
3 Germany ..............1,907.6m .............-15% ....................38%
4 S Korea ................1,444.0m................27% ..................34%
5 India ......................1,250.0m ..............33% ...................72%
6 Russia ..................1,069.1m ...............5% .....................86%
7 Mexico ..................916.4m ..................0% .....................90%
8 Italy .......................900.8m....................1% .....................33%
9 Brazil .....................897.2m ...................0% .....................60%
10 Taiwan ...............697.3m....................105% .................46%
(v) Copuntry Report
* China: "Chinese consumption, as a percentage of total estimated world production of $71-billion, amounts to 23%. So, again, more than one out of every five machines produced in the world ends up in China. In terms of domestic production, China, which reports its production for this survey in U.S. dollars rather than yuan, increased 43%, solidifying its spot as third place in the world, ahead of the Italy and behind only Japan and Germany."
Note: The second sentence suggests that foreign production of machine tool INSIDE China catapults China into the leading producer.
* Taiwan: "The country continues to have a very high per-capita rate of consumption, and last year ranked second behind only Switzerland in that measure, with more than $165 worth of new machine tools installed for each person.
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