The Made in Taiwan is the country of origin

Country of origin

Country of origin , is the country of manufacture, production, or growth where an article or product comes from...

 label affixed to products to indicate that the said product is made in the Republic of China

Republic of China

The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

, commonly known as Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

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As Taiwanese exports increased in the 1990s, the Made in Taiwan label has become well-known for the wide variety of products, ranging from textiles, plastic toys, and bikes from the 1980s to laptop

Laptop

A laptop, also called a notebook, is a personal computer for mobile use. A laptop integrates most of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device and speakers into a single unit...

s and computer chips in the 1990s.

Recently, there has been a push by the Ministry of Economic Affairs

Ministry of Economic Affairs (Republic of China)

Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China is responsible for formulating policy and laws for industry and trade, foreign direct investment, energy, minerals, measurement standards, intellectual property, state-owned enterprises throughout the Free Area of the Republic of China. The...

 to promote certified made-in-Taiwan products in Taiwan, including stocking participating items at major chain stores.

Computers

JP Morgan analyst Alvin Kwock noted that, "Over 80 percent of the world's notebook computer design is outsourced to Taiwan now."

Taiwan has been leading the computer industry for a long time, designing and manufacturing chips to laptops.

Representative brands of the Made in Taiwan label in the computer industry include Acer and Asus

ASUS

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated is a multinational computer technology and consumer electronics product manufacturer headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its product range includes motherboards, desktops, laptops, monitors, tablet PCs, servers and mobile phones...

. Lesser known brands such as Quanta Computer have also proven to be highly competitive and successful, such as manufacturing the millions of computers for the One Laptop Per Child project.

In popular culture

In the 1998 film Armageddon

Armageddon (film)

Armageddon is a 1998 American disaster film, directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released by Disney's Touchstone Pictures. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth...

, while Lev Andropov attempts repairs to the shuttles engines, he gets into an argument with the Co-Pilot Jennifer about knowledge of components and shouts "American Components, Russian Components, all the same, all made in Taiwan!" Made in Taiwan was also referred to in shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu and named after four Renaissance artists...

, Three's Company

Three's Company

Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984, on ABC. It is based on the British sitcom, Man About the House....

 and Rugrats

Rugrats

Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series premiered on August 11, 1991, and aired its last episode on June 8, 2004....

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In the movie Toy Story

Toy Story

Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...

, Buzz Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear is a character and the main deuteragonist of the Toy Story franchise. Buzz is a space ranger action figure and the co-leader of Andy's Room. He has also appeared in the movie Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins and the television series spin-off Buzz Lightyear of...

, after watching a tv commercial of him, found out that he is a toy made in Taiwan.