A Taiwan Products Catalogue show will be held in Asharqia Chamber of Commerce, Eastern Province on Oct. 20. Thecatalogue shows features on investment goods such as machinery, equipments and the various kinds of consumer products including ITC, auto parts, sporting goods, textiles, and miscellaneous. Taiwan offers quality products with reasonable prices. It can meet the demand of the clients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia helping to improve the peoples' living quality and to develop their business as well. Taiwan and Saudi Arabia enjoy robust collaboration in trade. In the first eight months of 2008, the two-way trade volume reached $12.78 billion. Taiwan's exports to the Kingdom shot up to $651 million, up 27.5 percent over the same period last year; while Saudi exports to Taiwan stood at $ 12.124 billion, up 90 percent from the same period in 2007. Total bilateral trade during that year amounted to $11.15 billion, representing a growth rate of 8.3 percent over 2006. Of this figure, Taiwan's imports from Saudi Arabia totaled $10.41 billion, up 6.7 percent compared to the previous year, while Taiwan's exports to Saudi Arabia amounted to $730 million, up 38 percent from 2006. At present, Saudi Arabia is one of Taiwan's largest trading partners, being the 5th largest source of imports and 32nd largest export destination. __
