Table 2.—Taiwan: Exports and reexports of mineral commodities1
—Continued

(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
 METALS —Continued Iron and steel metal —Continued 
Commodity 1977 1978 Principal destinations, 1978 
Semimanufactures: 
Bars, rods, angles, shapes, sections: 
    Wire rod and other bars and rods — —  112,506 359,947
NA.

    Angles, shapes, sections 21,454 42,086 NA. 
 Universals, plates, sheets 27,354 133,800 United States 89,813; Japan 24,881.

 Hoop and strip 7,295 4,231 Indonesia 1,855; Singapore 875; United States

303. 
Singapore 1,234; Indonesia 527. Singapore 2,287; Saudi Arabia 1,285; Japan

857. 
United States 97,315; Saudi Arabia 11,534. 
NA. 
Ja~an 4,450; Republic of Korea 322; Thailand 
 
United States 270. All to Japan. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Japan 2,668; West Germany 965. 
 707 4,372 United States 3,022; Japan 1,093. 
 482 32,376 Australia 26,364; United States 3,537; India 
    2,379. 
 91 104 Hong Kong 44; Malaysia 10; Thailand 4. 
 8,471 468 Mainly to United States. 
 8 20 United States 13; Republic of Korea 4. 
 1,010 1,015 Japan 719; Philippines 273. 
 45 280 United States 157; Mexico 50; Japan 20. 
 163 17,344 Kenya 17,344. 
 401 72 Mainly to Philippines. 
 45 —— 
 12 —— 
 1,878 90 United Kingdom 24; Malaysia 20; Philippines 
    20. 
 
19 
 
1,171 
2,038 
168 
 
711 
1,611 
 
2 
54 
(2) 
 
1,562 
 8 27 NA. 
 14 18 NA. 
 326 231 NA. 
 6,450 5,986 Philippines 2,428; Indonesia 1,497; Hong Kong 
    1,074. 
 25,172 25,054 Hong Kong 9,753; Japan 4,652; Saudi Arabia 
    3,304. 
 120 15 NA. 
 -- 545 NA. 
 103 123 Malaysia 103; Philippines 20. 
 48 121 Hong Kong 91; Indonesia 30. 
 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF TAIWAN 905See footnotes at end of table. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rails and accessories 6,711 2,241 
 Wire 1,977 11,561 
 Tubes, pipes, fittings 113,383 150,801 
 Castings and forgings, rough 9,553 11,925 
Lead metal including alloys, all forms 1,802 5,584 
Magnesium metal including alloys, all forms — —  274
270 
Manganese oxides  — — 5 
Mercury 76-pound flasks~. (2) -- 
Nickel: 
 Matte, speiss, similar materials 151 146 NA. 
Metal including alloys: 
 Scrap 372 349 NA. 
 Unwrought and semimanufactures 74 38 NA. 
Patinum-group metals and silver: 
Waste and sweepings: 
 Silver troy ounces._ 675 —— 
 Other do_~ 613,725 3,633 
Metals including alloys: 
 Patinum-group do~_ 
 Silver do. — — — 
 
Tin metal including alloys, all forms  
Titanium oxides________________________ 
Tungsten (wolfram) metal including alloys, all forms______________________________

Zinc: 
Oxide and peroxide  
Metal including alloys, all forms  
Other: 
Ash and residue containing nonferrous metals 
Oxides, hydroxides, peroxide of metals.______ 
Metals includingalloys, all forms: 
Metalloids: Silicon_________________ Pyrophoric alloys__________________
Base metals including alloys, all forms, ne.s__________________________ 
 
NONMETALS 
Abrasives, natural, n.e.s.: 
 Pumice, emery, natural corundum, etc Philippines 9; Saudi Arabia 6; Singapore
2. 
Dust and powder of precious and semiprecious 
 stones kilograms. - United States 614; Hong Kong 557. 
 Grinding and polishing wheels and stones - - - United States 436; Thailand
397; Singapore 
Asbestos -- 
Barite and witherite 2 NA. 
Boric oxide, acid, borates, perborates 37 Mainly to United States. 
Cement thousand tons_  1,146 Saudi Arabia 465; Hong Kong 258; Singapore 
    164. 
Clays and clay products (including all refractory 
brick): 
Crude: 
Bentonite                        
Fire clay  
Other                           
Products: 
Refractory (including nonclay bricksL - - - 
 
Nonrefractory                     
 
Diamond, gem: 
Not set or strung thousand carats_ - 
Manufactured                  
Diatomite and other infusorial earth  
Feldsparandfluorspar___________________