But eventually the appreciation of the New Taiwan Dollar and rising costs for wages, land and environmental protection made manufacturing in Taiwan no longer tenable, and operations were relocated to Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang Provinces in mainland China. Taiwanese companies are still very much active in the industry, overseeing to this day 30 % of all global umbrella production.
其後隨著新台幣升值，工資、土地及環保成本墊高，製傘業逐漸淡出，轉移至大陸福建及廣東、浙江等地區，但台商始終沒有放棄這一領域，迄今仍有 30 % 的全球產量掌握在台商手中。