Taiwan is the fifth largest producer manmade fibre/filament in the world accounting for 3.3% of world produce. During 2008, it produced 2.04 million tons of manmade fibres as against 2.49 million tons it produced in 2007. This implies a massive drop of 18%. It was the fifth largest producers of acrylic staple fibre, third in nylon and polyester filament, fourth in polyester staple fibre and fifth largest viscose staple fibre producer in 2008. However, its share has been steadily declining since 1990 as China was ramped up faster than any global economies. About 6% of World’s polyester filament yarn a nd 4% of polyester staple is produced in Taiwan. In 2008, their production declined 14% much faster than the declines recorded between 2000 and 2007. In case of nylon, though it accounted for 9% of global supplies, recorded decline in 2008. Nylon pro-duction was down 26% as against -0.5% annual decline recorded in 2000-07 period. In 1990s, produc-tion had expanded 8% per annum.