Taiwanese export orders rose 61.9% year-on-year to a record $97.94 billion in July 2026, accelerating from June's 59.4% increase and marking 18 consecutive months of growth. The result exceeded the 54.6% market forecast. Information and communication product orders climbed 89.5% to $33.27 billion, while electronic product orders increased 71.7% to $41.32 billion, driven by demand for AI servers, cloud services, networking equipment, high-performance computing and memory. Machinery and base-metal orders also grew, while optical-instrument orders fell 10.6%. U.S. orders rose 88.9% to $40.79 billion, with information and communication products up 156.8%; orders from Mainland China and Hong Kong, ASEAN, Europe and Japan also increased. January-to-July orders exceeded $602.03 billion, up 52.5% year-on-year. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs forecast August growth of 61.4% to 61.8%, although geopolitical and global trade-policy risks remain.