6. Taiwan
$1.9 billion
2.9% of Total Exports
Taiwan’s plastic production industry boasts over 700 different member corporations. Chief among these are such industry giants as Formosa Plastics Group, which produces an array of intermediate plastics products, such as PVC. In 2016, the company was ranked in the top half of Forbes’ 2000 largest public companies in the world, which does a lot to explain how Taiwan’s astronomical plastic export figures have become what they are today along with why they find themselves among the upper echelon of countries that export the most plastic in the world.
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