Editing Economy of Taiwan (section)

===Steel and heavy manufacturing===
Taiwan, as of 2017, is the world's thirteenth-largest steel exporter. In 2018, Taiwan exported 12.2 million metric tons of steel, a one percent increase from 12.0 million metric tons in 2017. Taiwan's exports represented about 3 percent of all steel exported globally in 2017, based on available data. The volume of Taiwan's 2018 steel exports was one-sixth that of the world's largest exporter, China, and nearly one-third that of the second-largest exporter, Japan. In value terms, steel represented just 3.6 percent of the total amount of goods Taiwan exported in 2018. Taiwan exports steel to more than 130 countries and territories. Over the decade from 2009 to 2019, Taiwan grew its steel exports by 24%. In 2018, the US imported 300,000 metric tons of pipe and tube products. Taiwan has developed a vast export trade to its most proximate neighbors in flat products. Taiwan's [[stainless steel]] exports numbered 2018 about 500,000 metric tons.<ref name="usdoc">{{cite news |title=Global Steel Trade Monitor - Steel Exports Report: Taiwan |url=https://www.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/exports-Taiwan.pdf |agency=International Trade Administration |publisher=US Department of Commerce |date=May 2019 |access-date=9 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628011612/http://trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/exports-Taiwan.pdf |archive-date=28 June 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Taiwan is the fourth largest exporter of machine tools and machine tool components in the world. The greater [[Taichung]] area is home to a cluster of machine tool manufacturers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Taiwan: Supporting the Next Generation of Aerospace Manufacturing |url=https://www.mmsonline.com/blog/post/upcoming-webinar-taiwan-supporting-the-next-generation-of-aerospace-manufacturing |website=www.mmsonline.com |publisher=Modern Machine Shop |access-date=8 July 2020 |archive-date=11 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711104625/https://www.mmsonline.com/blog/post/upcoming-webinar-taiwan-supporting-the-next-generation-of-aerospace-manufacturing |url-status=live }}</ref>

Taiwanese company [[Techman Robot Inc.]] is the world's second largest producer of [[cobots]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Huang |first1=Elaine |title=This Made-in-Taiwan Robot Is Drawing International Attention |url=https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2436 |website=english.cw.com.tw |publisher=CommonWealth |access-date=8 July 2020 |archive-date=25 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225161600/https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2436 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[automotive industry in Taiwan]] is significant, with Taiwanese firms increasingly invested in automotive electrification; 75% of [[Tesla, Inc.]]’s suppliers are Taiwanese.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lu |first1=Kuo-chen |title=Taiwan's Tesla Boom, and Looking for More |url=https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2020/10/taiwan-tesla-boom/ |website=topics.amcham.com.tw |date=20 October 2020 |publisher=Topics |access-date=29 October 2020}}</ref>