However, when you look at the trade numbers for the last five years, Taiwan's exports to ASEAN have continued to grow both for textiles and in total. Taiwan's exports to China have also increased in four of the last five years, the only exception to that trend being in 2008, when the global financial crisis caused exports to fall (see Table 1) .Nonetheless, the industry is not very optimistic.
然而翻開近 5 年貿易數據，台灣對東協的出口額，不論總體貿易或紡織品，都仍在持續增加中，並無減少的現象；而台灣對中國的出口值，近 5 年中除了 2008 年因金融海嘯負成長，其他年度也是持續成長。（詳見附表 1）