According to the statistics shown in July this year. Chinese screws export amount totaled 355,945 tons, increased by 0.46% and the export volume was $US 5.86 million, rose by 7.74% compared with the same period of last year. On the contrary, Taiwanese screws export amount totaled 132,416 tons, declined by 0.75% and the export volume was US$3.62 million, rose by 11.84% compared with the same period of last year.

Some industries explained that Chinese screw export amount was about 2.5 times higher than Taiwan, and the export volume was 1.5 times higher than Taiwan. However, China mainly exported low prices standard screws so that export amount increased but export prices declined. Taiwan focused on exports of high quality and costumed screws and aimed to improve sales amount and prices in short term.