Strategic Lens

Supply chains and manufacturing: Argentina and Taiwan

First country

Second country

In 2025, Taiwan sold USD 152 million of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel to Argentina.

Benefits

  • BothTwo-way trade in machinery, vehicles and iron and steel grew 52 percent, from USD 101 million in 2019 to USD 153 million in 2025.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, Taiwan sold USD 152 million of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel, and Argentina sold almost none.

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

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

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

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

2019: 100Low 96.5 / High 272.22025: 152.4

2019100
2020136.4
2021272.2
2022236.5
2023111.9
202496.5
2025152.4

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026