Strategic Lens

Supply chains and manufacturing: Taiwan and United Kingdom

First country

Second country

In 2025, Taiwan sold USD 2.41 billion of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel to United Kingdom and bought USD 798 million from it.

Benefits

  • BothTwo-way trade in machinery, vehicles and iron and steel grew 60 percent, from USD 2.00 billion in 2019 to USD 3.21 billion in 2025.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

United Kingdom's imports from Taiwan: machinery, vehicles and iron and steel

USD billion · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by United Kingdom

2019: 1.48Low 1.29 / High 2.412025: 2.41

20191.48
20201.29
20211.71
20222.01
20231.81
20241.83
20252.41

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

United Kingdom's exports to Taiwan: machinery, vehicles and iron and steel

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by United Kingdom

2019: 525.7Low 446.4 / High 797.82025: 797.8

2019525.7
2020472.2
2021446.4
2022523.6
2023755
2024772.8
2025797.8

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026