In the face of the epidemic, material shortages, lack of manpower, port congestion, and soaring shipping costs, market demand and the structure of the global supply chain has changed.

South Korea is the world's sixth-largest machine tool producer and the world's fifth-largest machine tool consumer, with an average consumption of approximately US$4.33 billion. Among them, nearly 70% of the consumer market's demand is for products provided by local machine tool factories, and only close to 30% of the products must be imported from abroad.

In recent years, Turkey has become a highly anticipated newly industrialized country with its brilliant GDP growth rate. It has also become Taiwan's third-largest export market for machine tools for many years.

Looking back at the continuous fluctuations in global economic and trade conditions in 2019, the global economy is in a high degree of uncertainty, and the overall output value of Taiwan's machine tool industry in 2019 will be affected.

According to the International Economic Forecasting Agency, the global economic growth of this year (2020) is almost the same as the growth rate of 2019. However, the impact of the covid-19 may affect the economy of various countries in the short term and even impact the industrial supply chain. The current situation of the international economy and explain the possible influence factors of the recent development of the North American market, including the US-Canada-Mexico Agreement, the US-Japan Agreement, the US-China trade war, etc., and then the development of the supply chain changes explore the outlook for the North American market.

Japan is the third country in the world to establish a machine tool industry and realize industrialization after the United States and Germany.

In 2019, the global machine tool is facing a severe test, and the market prosperity is not ideal.

Affected by the two major economies of the United States and China, global trade trends have subsided, and the Asian economy has also suffered greatly.

The world's major exporters of machine tools are concentrated in Asia, the European Union and North America. In 2019, the German machine tool market ranked Germany as the world's largest exporter. In 2019, the export of machine tools was 9.17 billion US dollars.

With the implementation of the import substitution policy in Russia, the output of machine tools has increased, and the replacement of equipment has become one of the priority projects of Russia's "development strategy for the machine tool industry before 2030", which will inject huge business opportunities for the Russian machine tool industry.