Thursday, May 1, 2003
A survey conducted by the Taipei Computer Association (TCA) showed that 60 percent of member companies are forced to cut down their business operations in Taiwan and 90 percent of the members said they mostly likely to close down operations in China.
37 percent of those polled, said that they have suspended new investments or expansions in their manufacturing and marketing operations on China. Ironically, most of the companies took the survey said SARS have not affected their major operations. TCA officials plan to urge government agencies to make increasing procurements of IT products made locally.
Separately, due to widespread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China, many international firms and local companies are limiting their import goods coming from China. Taiwanese companies including Acer Group, Wistron Corp., Quanta Computer, and Kinpo Electronics whom have plants in China will cut down import of IT hardware products if the condition did not improve or gone to worse drastic measures will be taken and possibly total ban of importation.
Taiwan most of the goods pass through Hong Kong or vice versa. Officials of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) have mapped out new strategies to help companies adopt the business model of "receiving orders in Taiwan, and exporting from Taiwan.
By: DocMemory
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