Since the EDAC made its recommendations, a number of sectors, including notebook computers and laser-disk manufacturers, have seen an easing of rules on China investment. Only a few industrial sectors remain tightly regulated, but these include the more-than-NT $ 500-billion semiconductor industry (including IC design, manufacturing, packaging, and testing), and upstream petrochemicals manufacturers, whose products are critical to many other industries in Taiwan.
經發會決議後，多項產業如筆記型電腦、影音光碟等的確已陸續放行，唯獨年產值高達五千多億台幣的半導體產業（含 IC 設計、晶圓製造及封裝測試），以及對台灣經濟牽連甚廣的石化上游等少數重量級產業，還在限制範圍內。