Trade Barrier in Taiwan

This week is talk about what kind of unintentional barrier affect international trade. And I want to talk about my country, Taiwan; we have some unintentional barrier in trade. There are natural disasters and political problems.

Taiwan which is in the tropical area has lots typhoons every year especially in summer. And also Taiwan has lots earthquake due to it is located the plate between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. However, Taiwan is a island and locate in good position, I think it’s easy to trade with global. But compare with the near countries, Hong-Kong and South Korea, they have more trade than Taiwan. Why? I think it’s all because the weather. Typhoons and earthquakes affect the companies don’t want to trade with Taiwan.

Moreover, it is political problems. Because Taiwanese care political too much, people usually got fight in this issue. When the election is coming, the society is not stable. This is not government’s problem. Of course, president wants the economics in Taiwan is growing. It is all because people are emotional. And we have too many elections. In 2003, USA mentioned this problem before in a trade survey. With unstable society, international companies won’t trade with it. To sum up, compare with Hong-Kong and South Korea, they don’t have kind of problems. So they grow up in economics so fast.