Whether or not the reasons behind the price rises were rational or reasonable, international prices for bulk commodities surged, and a country like Taiwan with few natural resources, which has to rely on imports for so many things, could not avoid the impact.
不論漲價背後的理由是否合理，大宗國際原物料漲勢洶洶，對台灣這樣一個自然資源不夠、處處需要進口的國家來說，受到的衝擊無從迴避。