受东南亚金融风暴引发的日本经济危机及汇率大幅波动的影响,台湾今年1～6月对外贸易额持续下滑,比去年同期减少了5.4％,其中出口544.95亿美元,比去年同期减小7.1％;进口532.51亿美元,比去年同期减少3.5％;由于出口额下跌,贸易顺差也比去年同期大幅缩减了64.5％。 Affected by the economic crisis in Japan and the large fluctuations in exchange rates caused by the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia, Taiwan’s external trade volume continued to decline from January to June this year, a decrease of 5.4% from the same period of last year, of which exports were US$54.495 billion, which was 7.1% lower than the same period of last year; 53.251 billion U.S. dollars, a decrease of 3.5% over the same period of last year; due to the decline in export value, the trade surplus was also substantially reduced by 64.5% compared with the same period of last year.