Tariffs have been cut on 3,500 categories of items, lowering the average effective tariff rate from 7.8 to approximately 5 percent, comparable to the rates in industrialized countries. Moreover, the New Taiwan dollar has been allowed to appreciate by more than 40 percent against the U.S. dollar since 1985; and private individuals can now buy as much as US $ 5 million for outward remittances.
在降低關稅方面，我們最近降低了三千五百項貨品進口稅，使得實質平均稅率由百分之七點八降為百分之五左右，這個稅率已接近工業國家；至於在新台幣匯率方面，自一九八五年迄今，新台幣對美元匯率已升值百分之四十以上，而在解除外匯管制上，個人匯出款每人每年上限為五百萬美元。