Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs

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1. 1d
   Taiwan plans AI supply chain parks in Texas, up to $4B each

   Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Oct. 16 that it will work with the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA) to build industrial parks in the United States under a model in which private firms fund the projects and the government assists, with each park costing roughly $2 billion to $4 billion. Economics Minister Kung Ming-hsin told Bloomberg the plan would start with one park in Texas costing up to $4 billion, that future parks would cost about $2 billion to $4 billion each, and that the government intends to build more than one U.S. park and create a long-term, sustainable supply chain open to U.S. companies and local workers. The parks are meant to host the small and mid-sized suppliers needed by TSMC, Nvidia's main production partner, and by AI server assemblers including Foxconn. Asked about Bloomberg's report that Taiwan has already secured land in Texas, the ministry said it would explain at an appropriate time; TEEMA chairman Liu Young-way has said overseas science park sites under evaluation include Arizona, Texas, Mexico, Poland and India.

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   Taiwan to tighten AI chip exports to China, make violations criminal

   Bloomberg reported on October 16 that Taiwan is preparing to tighten export controls on AI chips, adding AI servers and the most advanced semiconductors to its restricted list to align more closely with US restrictions. Economy Minister Gong Ming-hsin said that once the new rules take effect, shipping restricted AI hardware to China without a license would be a criminal offense under the Trade Act — the first time Taiwan could prosecute advanced-hardware smuggling criminally. Gong tied the commitments to the US-Taiwan Agreement on Reciprocal Trade signed this year, but did not give a timeline for implementation. The report notes Washington has long restricted Chinese purchases of Nvidia and AMD AI chips, while billions of dollars of hardware have still reached China through illicit channels.

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   Taiwan economy minister: Tamsui New Town offers good conditions for AI industry

   Pegatron chairman Tung Tzu-hsien said on the 14th that he does not support relocating Songshan Airport and suggested an AI industrial park could instead be sited in Tamsui New Town. Economics Minister Kung Ming-hsin responded that Tamsui New Town's conditions for developing an AI industry are quite good. The exchange links the airport relocation debate with the question of where to put AI industry land.

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4. Oct 8
   Taiwan minister: Taiwan firms' US investment aims to 'define the market' in a decade

   Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin said Taiwanese companies are shifting their US investment rationale away from lowering production costs toward getting closer to the US market through supply chains, moving from "understanding the market" to "defining the market." He said Taiwan is currently at the front of AI-related industries with a hard-to-replace AI supply chain, and that the US wants Taiwanese firms to invest there and form supply-chain partnerships. The government hopes three to five years of overseas deployment will bring closer market integration, with results visible in about ten years.

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5. Oct 8
   Taiwan cabinet passes bill lowering AI transformation investment credit threshold to NT$250,000

   Taiwan's Executive Yuan approved on Oct. 8 a draft amendment to the SME Development Act, renamed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Transformation and Upgrading Development Act, sending it to the Legislative Yuan. The draft adds a transformation-equipment investment credit with the qualifying spending threshold cut from NT$1 million to NT$250,000, covering smart machinery, AI applications, 5G, cybersecurity, and digital and net-zero investments — including software, technology and technical services, not just hardware. The R&D investment credit rate rises from 15% to 20% with broader outsourced R&D eligibility, while the Ministry of Economic Affairs plans NT$100 billion over eight years to support MSME upgrading.

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