Figures from the ROC Board of Trade back up this claim. In recent years, the ROC's balance of trade with New Zealand has turned from surplus to deficit, and by 1995 was over US $ 190 million in the red.
證諸國貿局統計，近幾年我國對紐西蘭貿易由順差轉為逆差，到一九九五年，赤字已經高達一億九千多萬美元。