Typhoon Wayne in 1986 (which toppled 80 % of Taiwan's lacquer trees), rising wages and growing competition from the mainland and Vietnam pushed the Taiwan lacquer production industry into dire straits. Now domestic production doesn't reach one ton a year.
只是好景不長，隨著台灣工資的攀升，民國七十五年韋恩颱風的肆虐，吹垮台灣百分之八十的漆樹林，加上大陸、越南生漆的進口，台灣的漆樹事業一蹶不振，如今台灣的生漆產量每年不到一公噸。