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To assist Taiwan traders and manufacturers in coping with the challenges faced in the global marketplace and to enhance their competitiveness, TAITRA offers comprehensive market surveys and shares the latest data and trends with local business people through publications, online media, and seminars.

International Trade Biweekly

International Trade Biweekly (ITB), a Chinese-language periodical, gives manufacturers and traders a practical medium to gather the latest business information and issues from around the world. Over 100 Taiwan trade and economic offices overseas, along with over 50 local journalists, are involved in collecting, processing, and compiling current material for this biweekly trade magazine. Made available to businesses throughout the island and abroad, ITB comes with a trade data supplement called Trade Opportunity, which contains a list of buyer inquiries collected by the overseas trade offices, as well as information on worldwide importers supplied by reputable business research organizations.

Taiwan Products

Taiwan Products is a full-color, English-language, feature publication with each issue focusing on a leading export industry and related product lines. Ten to Eleven issues are published every year, covering categories such as Hardware and Building Materials, Sporting Goods and Bicycles, Biotech, Machinery, Auto Parts and Motorcycles (also in Spanish), Food Products and Food Processing Machinery, Electronics and Communication, Medical Equipment and Health Care, and Gifts and Stationery.

Among the key features of Taiwan Products are industry overviews, line reports, company profiles, interviews, and trade show reports, as well as information on manufacturers and exporters. Taiwan Products has a circulation of 30,000 copies for each issue, all distributed to buyers and importers at major international trade shows in Taiwan and abroad. This products-for-export magazine is an important tool to promote Taiwan products to the world market.

Country Trade Profiles Online

To assist Taiwan enterprises in sourcing useful information for business purposes, TAITRA set up a Chinese-language website: http://www.taitraesource.com, which offers numerous links to other websites featuring international trade practices and country profiles of 100 nations. The website has attracted over 150,000 visitors since it started in October 2005.

TAITRA Image Bank

TAITRA organizes various trade promotion activities, including international trade shows, trade missions, business forums, and brand promotions. These events represent great moments in the history of Taiwan business and trade. To keep a record of these memorable occasions, TAITRA has created an image databank to catalog these events in digital form. As of 2006, TAITRA has accumulated a total of 20,000 recorded images, which will be made available to the public at the Taipei Trade Information Center in the Digital Information Service Area starting in 2007.