• US exports from Taiwan now exceed exports from China for the first time in decades - AI gold rush fuels 93.5% jump in advanced system exports Thanks, AI servers. • Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. • You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, and fear of additional tariffs, have forced businesses to change their supply chain drastically in the last one and a half years. • As a result, for the first time in decades, the United States imported more goods from Taiwan than from China in late 2025, according to DigiTimes. • A graph published by @JosephPontiano accentuates the point, as data from Taiwan’s International Trade Administration indicates that exports from Taiwan to the U.S. • roughly doubled in certain categories, including AI servers that cost hundreds of millions of dollars per unit.
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- In late 2025 the United States imported more goods from Taiwan than from China for the first time since 1992, a shift highlighted by U.S. Commerce Department data released February 19. Imports from China fell 44 % year‑over‑year, while Taiwan’s exports to the U.S. more than doubled to $24.7 billion, driven largely by high‑value AI servers and rack‑scale systems produced by Foxconn, Quanta and Wistron. The surge reflects tariff‑induced supply‑chain realignment and the rapid expansion of U.S. AI infrastructure, with major cloud providers increasing orders of Taiwanese‑made AI hardware.
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