In 2005 Taiwan was Australia's seventh-largest export market, despite the two countries not sharing formal diplomatic ties, and with the price of raw materials on the rise during that year, Australian imports to Taiwan rose in price by as much as 35 %.
2005 年，沒有邦交的台灣躍居澳洲第 7 大出口市場。而由於去年原物料價格直線上漲，澳洲對台出口總值更比前年提高了 35 %。