The verifiable case for sourcing from Taiwan: export scale, listed-company transparency, third-party certification, and a negotiated US tariff cap.
$7.6B
Taiwan aftermarket parts exports, 2024
TTVMA / Ministry of Economic Affairs
50.63%
of those exports shipped to America
TTVMA, 2024
90%
of Taiwan auto-parts output is exported
TAITRA
An export-built manufacturing base
The US aftermarket runs on an aging car parc. S&P Global Mobility counts 289 million light vehicles in operation in the US, with an average age of 12.8 years, and the Auto Care Association projects the light-duty aftermarket at $435 billion for 2025. Parts demand concentrates in vehicles aged 6 to 14 years, a window the 2015 to 2019 model years are now entering, per S&P Global Mobility.
Taiwan organized its auto-parts industry around exactly this demand. Exporters shipped about US$7.6 billion in aftermarket parts and accessories in 2024, per TTVMA and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, with 50.63 percent bound for America. Roughly 90 percent of Taiwan's auto-parts output is exported, per TAITRA. This is not a domestic industry that happens to export; it is an industry built to serve overseas aftermarkets, their standards and their fitment data.
The 101 AUTOTECH alliance reflects that base across categories: door handles, automotive cameras and parking sensors, vehicle switches, fasteners, chassis rubber, circuit protection, EV thermal modules, magnetics and wireless charging, in-cabin electronics, and performance exhaust. Member founding years reach back to 1972, and the commitment runs toward the US market as well: JET Optoelectronics opened a Florida subsidiary in 2024 to serve North America.
Suppliers you can audit
Sourcing risk is, at its core, information risk: who actually makes the part, under what quality system, with what financial standing. The 101 AUTOTECH answer is to make every manufacturer checkable. Each alliance profile names the company, its location, its founding year and its certifications, and the same records are published as structured data so procurement software and AI agents can read them directly.
Six alliance members are publicly traded on Taiwan's securities markets, which brings audited financial statements and continuous public disclosure:
Certifications are stated with scope, issuer and year rather than shown as logos. HUSHAN, established 1972, holds CAPA 702 for automotive cameras (2021) and CAPA 703 for parking sensors (2023). Fuzetec produces PPTC circuit protection under IATF 16949 with AEC-Q200 qualification. JET Optoelectronics holds ISO 26262 ASIL-D functional-safety process certification issued by DEKRA.
Systems behind the parts
SPEC Products manufactures under IATF 16949, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 with an A2LA-accredited laboratory, exporting more than 20,000 part numbers a year built to customer prints. Taiyang Naili operates under IATF 16949:2016, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, per company disclosures.
Tariff landscape, as of mid-2026
Trade policy affects landed cost, and it is moving. For Taiwan-origin auto parts, US Section 232 tariffs are capped at 15 percent under the finalized US-Taiwan trade and investment agreement, retroactive to May 1, 2026. Where a product's normal duty rate already meets or exceeds 15 percent, no additional Section 232 surcharge applies. This was reported by Manufacturing Dive and corroborated by the Taipei Times in May 2026.
As broader landscape: parts of China origin sit outside that agreement and remain subject to Section 301 duties, where List 1 applies a 25 percent duty to 818 HTS codes including auto parts, stacked on base MFN rates. Separately, the US Supreme Court struck down IEEPA reciprocal tariffs in February 2026, and the tariff framework is being rebuilt under Section 301.
Rates change. Confirm the current rate for your specific HTS codes, in writing, at quote time. This page states the position as verified in mid-2026.
Meet the manufacturers behind the data
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