After COMPUTEX 2026: How Do You Ship PC Parts Bought in China Back to Taiwan?

COMPUTEX 2026 Has Ended: What Should You Know Before Buying the Same Parts Afterwards?

COMPUTEX Taipei is organized by TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) and TCA (Taipei Computer Association). Exhibitors named in the official press release include Acer, ASUS, Intel, MediaTek, Foxconn and GIGABYTE. The show ended on 2026/6/5. The official data are summarized below:

How Are PC Parts Classified in the Tariff Schedule, and What Is the Duty?

Computers and parts fall mainly under Chapters 84 and 85 of the tariff schedule. The table below shows the line-by-line lookup results from the Customs Administration's tariff open data (product names abridged); the first-column rate of every listed tariff line is 0%, and the 0% comes from checking each line, not from inferring it from the Information Technology Agreement:

How Much Tax on PC Parts? Does the NT$2,000 Duty-Free Rule Apply?

Start with the formulas published by the Customs Administration: duty = dutiable value × rate; business tax = (dutiable value + duty + commodity tax, etc.) × 5%; trade promotion service fee = dutiable value × 0.04%, waived at NT$100 or less. Article 10 of the Value-added and Non-value-added Business Tax Act only provides that the rate may not be lower than 5% and that the collection rate is set by the Executive Yuan; the source of the 5% figure is the Customs Administration's taxes-and-fees page. The dutiable value is the CIF value of the imported goods, and Article 29 of the Customs Act expressly requires freight, loading and unloading, handling and insurance charges up to the port of entry to be included, so freight is part of the tax base.

Do PC Parts from China Need an Import Permit?

The main items carry no restriction code. The Customs Administration explains that where none of the codes MW0 or MP1 is listed in the import regulation column, the mainland-origin goods are permitted to be imported and no import permit is needed; where MW0 is listed, import from mainland China is prohibited, but MW0 does not mean the goods can never be shipped (exception: small quantities in Chapters 25–97 need no import permit if the whole declaration is within CIF NT$32,000 and each single product is within 24 pieces, with a 40 kg limit only for goods that cannot be counted; electric motorcycles, electric bicycles and their controllers are excluded, and Chapters 1–24 do not qualify); see the announcement below. None of the tariff lines in the table above for desktop units, laptops, keyboards and mice, storage, SSDs, CPUs, monitors, power supplies, headphones, network cards and fans carries MW0 or MP1; MW0 appears on some semiconductor and hybrid integrated circuit lines, for example 8541.59.00.00-0 other semiconductor devices and 8541.51.00.00-8 semiconductor-based transducers.

Which PC Parts Need BSMI Inspection? How Is the Exemption Code Used?

Article 6 of the Commodity Inspection Act: commodities subject to mandatory inspection that do not meet the inspection requirements may not leave the factory or be exported or imported (except commodities that BSMI has determined to be of low hazard risk). Personal use has room for exemption: Article 5, paragraph 1, subparagraph 7 of the Regulations Governing Exemption from Commodity Inspection, information technology equipment whose total value of the same specification and model on one declaration is US$1,000 or less, or which exceeds US$1,000 but is not more than 5 units, and which is a non-sales item for own use, commercial sample, exhibit or item for R&D testing; BSMI's table of Commonly Used Exemption Customs Clearance Codes maps it to CI000000000010. Whether components such as graphics cards and motherboards count as "information technology equipment" under Article 5, paragraph 1, subparagraph 7 is not defined in the exemption regulations or the code table, and is not stated in the sources checked for this page; please ask a customs broker whether the code can be entered. Which components appear in BSMI's electronics item lists:

Do Wireless Keyboards and Mice, Bluetooth Headphones and Network Cards Need NCC Certification?

Article 65 of the Telecommunications Management Act: regulated telecommunications radio-frequency equipment announced by the competent authority must obtain approval before import; Article 66: it must comply with technical specifications and pass type approval before it may be sold; Article 80: a person who imports regulated telecommunications radio-frequency equipment without approval is fined 10 wan to 100 wan New Taiwan dollars (wan = ten thousand), and the equipment may be confiscated regardless of who owns it. The subject of the penalty is the person who imports "without approval"; this page does not write it as meaning that a buyer will certainly be fined.

Second-Hand, Refurbished, Gray-Market and Counterfeit Chips: How to Avoid Trouble

Parts on Chinese marketplaces and electronics markets include new, second-hand, pulled and refurbished items. What can be found on the regulatory side:

How to Pack High-Value Parts? What Happens on Damage or Loss?

For high-value parts such as graphics cards and CPUs, read the compensation and shipping rules first:

How Are PC Parts Charged? What Is the Difference Between Air Freight, Sea Express and Sea LCL Cargo?

Rates follow HowBridge's freight explanation; the formulas are listed here, and freight for sea LCL cargo varies by product, so please ask customer service for a quotation:

How Do You Consolidate PC Parts Bought in China and Ship Them to Taiwan?

The following 5 steps apply to PC parts bought on Chinese marketplaces and sent to the HowBridge Shenzhen warehouse.

Which Studies Can Serve as Background Reading?

The studies below only provide background on small-value duty exemptions, counterfeit chips and the computer industry, and none concerns Taiwan's import rules; nor can they prove that any particular item is duty-free or safe:

• Shenzhen manufacturing culture: Lindtner et al. (2015) examine Shenzhen's maker and manufacturing culture through long-term fieldwork; qualitative research, and the abstract does not mention Huaqiangbei parts trading.
• Small-value duty exemption: Fajgelbaum and Khandelwal (2024, NBER working paper) analyze US de minimis shipments and find that low-income ZIP codes import them more often, especially from China; applies only to the US system.
• Small-value duty exemption: Yeleussizova et al. (2024) analyze Kazakhstan's cross-border e-commerce and thresholds and confirm that the threshold is abused in that country; a single country.
• Counterfeit chips: the tutorial-style review by Guin et al. (2014) lists the types of counterfeit integrated circuits and their risks; it has no incidence data.
• Taiwan's computer industry: Yang and Coe (2009) use case studies of Taiwanese PC makers' cross-border investment; data from around 2009.
• Direct literature: peer-reviewed empirical work on Huaqiangbei parts trading, empirical work on the Information Technology Agreement's effect on tariffs or trade volume, academic studies of COMPUTEX, and Taiwanese theses and dissertations: no verifiable source was found on this page.

What Are the Common Terms in PC Parts Imports?

Information Technology Agreement (ITA)

The World Trade Organization's tariff-reduction agreement on information products; Taiwan participates under the name Chinese Taipei, but the rate of each individual part still follows its 11-digit tariff code.

Dutiable value

The base for calculating tax, being the CIF value of the imported goods, including freight, loading and unloading, handling and insurance charges up to the port of entry (Article 29 of the Customs Act).

Half-year period

Means January–June (months 1–6) and July–December (months 7–12) of each year, not a rolling six months; more than 6 duty-free releases means frequent use, and the duty-free treatment no longer applies.

Commodities subject to mandatory inspection

Commodities that the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced must be inspected before import; C02 in the import regulation column of the tariff means some commodities under that tariff line are subject to mandatory inspection.

Inspection-exemption clearance code CI000000000010

One of BSMI's commonly used exemption clearance codes, for information technology equipment: total value of the same specification and model on one declaration of US$1,000 or less, or above that with a quantity not exceeding 5 units, for non-sales purposes only.

Regulated telecommunications radio-frequency equipment

Wireless telecommunications terminal equipment and low-power radio-frequency devices announced by the National Communications Commission (NCC) that require approval before import; 602 in the import regulation column of the tariff relates to this.

Sea LCL cargo

Consolidated cargo shipped in sea containers; freight varies by product, so please ask customer service for a quotation; from NT$25 per kg, or from NT$150 per volume unit, with volume ÷ 28316.

Pre-confirmed entrustment

Before the goods arrive in Taiwan, the recipient uses the EZ WAY App to check the items and declared amounts and taps "declaration matches" to complete the pre-confirmation; according to the on-site explanation, this applies to those using online real-name entrustment.

What Are the Sources and the Scope of Fact-Checking?

The sources below were consulted on 2026-09-30; document dates are shown separately from the consultation date, and no date is invented where none is stated.

Government and official primary sources

• Customs Administration: customs import tariff open data | Document date: not stated (downloaded on the consultation date, 2026-09-30); for the tariff lines for desktop units, laptops, keyboards, storage, SSDs, CPUs, monitors, power supplies, headphones, network cards and PC-specific fans listed on this page, the first-column rate is 0% in every case (general fans 8414.59.90.00-5 are 4.7%); the import regulations for radio keyboards and radio mice include 602; those for desktop units, laptops, monitors, headphones, network cards and PC-specific fans include C02; the import regulation of some semiconductor and hybrid integrated circuit lines (such as 8541.59.00.00-0) is MW0; the definitions of the codes Z, S01, etc. in the collection/enforcement column are not found and are not explained. Actual rates are subject to the customs tariff in force at the time of declaration.
• Government Open Data Platform: customs tariff advance ruling cases | Document date: dataset cases from 2008 to 2018; no advance ruling case is found for a built-in motherboard or a plug-in graphics card; nearby cases are an external graphics and sound card device (2008, classified under 8471.80.00.00-7), a VoIP PCI interface card (2009, classified under 8473.30.00.00-6), and a USB PCI CARD (2009, classified under 8471.80.00.00-7 after review), all individual cases from more than a decade ago; a switching power supply dedicated to personal computers (2009) is classified under 8504.40.20.00-3; a PCIe SSD card (2015) is classified under 8523.51.00.00-0.
• Customs Administration: What taxes and fees are payable on imported goods? | Document date: 2026-07-13; duty = dutiable value × rate; business tax = (dutiable value + duty + commodity tax, etc.) × 5%; trade promotion service fee is dutiable value × 0.04%, waived at NT$100 or less; the dutiable value is the CIF value of the imported goods; items not subject to commodity tax under the Commodity Tax Act are exempt from commodity tax.
• Customs Administration: Express cargo | Document date: 2026-07-08; a dutiable value of NT$2,000 or less for the same batch is exempt from duty and from the business tax and commodity tax collected by Customs, but the exemption does not apply where the frequency is determined to be frequent; it does not apply where the same taxpayer has had duty-free releases more than 6 times within a half-year period; the half-year period means January–June (months 1–6) and July–December (months 7–12) of each year, and the count restarts on 1/1 and 7/1 (January 1 and July 1) of each year.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Regulations Governing Customs Clearance of Import and Export Postal Parcels | Document date: amended ROC year 109, month 4, day 1; Article 3: gross weight of 30 kg or less per piece (bag); Article 7: where the dutiable value is NT$2,000 or less, duty, commodity tax and business tax are exempt; Article 8: amounts above the limit are taxed on the full amount; Article 12: where the same recipient has been released under the duty-free rule of Article 7, paragraph 1, more than six times within a half-year period, the frequency is frequent and the duty exemption does not apply, and the half-year period means January to June and July to December of each year.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Regulations Governing Customs Clearance of Air Express Cargo | Document date: amended ROC year 115, month 2, day 23; Article 6: express cargo must not be articles prohibited from import under the Customs Act, controlled goods, goods infringing intellectual property rights, etc., and each piece (bag) must weigh 70 kg or less gross; Article 11: a dutiable value of NT$2,000 or less is low-value duty-free, NT$2,001 to NT$50,000 is low-value dutiable, and more than NT$50,000 is high-value express; Article 12: cargo involving import or export regulations must be handled with a formal import declaration (except for special situations announced by Customs); Article 14: the same batch of imported express cargo must not be declared separately, except where the total does not exceed the duty-free limit or the tax and fees are declared and paid voluntarily; the text of the regulations has no definition of "more than 6 times".
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Customs Act | Document date: amended ROC year 111, month 5, day 11; Article 15: articles that infringe patent rights, trademark rights and copyright may not be imported; Article 29: the dutiable value is calculated on the transaction price of the imported goods, and freight, loading and unloading, handling and insurance charges up to the port of entry must be included; Article 49, paragraph 2: goods below the limit announced by the Ministry of Finance are duty-free, but this does not apply where imports are frequent; the text of the limit announced by the Ministry of Finance was not obtained for this page.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Value-added and Non-value-added Business Tax Act | Document date: amended ROC year 114, month 5, day 28; Article 10: the business tax rate may not be lower than five percent or higher than ten percent, and the collection rate is set by the Executive Yuan; Article 20: business tax on imported goods is calculated on the dutiable value plus the import duty; the source of the 5% figure is the Customs Administration's taxes-and-fees page, and the Executive Yuan's announcement text is not found.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Commodity Tax Act | Document date: amended ROC year 114, month 12, day 30; the electrical-appliance items listed as taxable in Article 11 are refrigerators, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, audio combination sets and electric ovens; computers, motherboards, graphics cards, monitors and SSDs are not listed; no case is found on whether an individual audio product counts as an "audio combination set", so this page does not state it.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Regulations Governing Exemption from Commodity Inspection | Document date: amended ROC year 108, month 11, day 21; Article 5, paragraph 1, subparagraph 7: information technology equipment, with a total value of the same specification and model on one declaration of US$1,000 or less, or above US$1,000 with a quantity not exceeding five units; Article 8: for non-sales items for own use, commercial samples, exhibits or items for R&D testing, exemption for the same specification and model is limited to one time within six months; Article 11: large computers with a rated power of 30 kVA or more are not exempted; Article 15: samples and exhibits must be marked as not for sale; Articles 16 and 17: exempted commodities that enter the domestic market for circulation must undergo inspection with the inspection authority, and may not be sold on the domestic market unless they pass inspection as required.
• Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI), Ministry of Economic Affairs: Commonly Used Exemption Customs Clearance Codes | Document date: PDF updated 2018-12-26 (effective ROC year 108, month 4, day 1); CI000000000010 is for information technology equipment: total value of the same specification and model on one declaration of US$1,000 or less, or above US$1,000 with a quantity not exceeding 5 units.
• BSMI: Commodity inspection exemption Q&A (5 laptops) | Document date: 2023-09-26; scenario is commercial samples: up to 5 laptops may be entered directly on the import declaration as CI000000000010, while 6 require case-specific approval in advance.
• BSMI: Commodity inspection exemption Q&A (once per six months) | Document date: 2023-09-26; the same specification and model on the same declaration can be used only once within 6 months; where there are 2 declarations of the same specification and model on the same import date, exemption must be applied for together, and the exemption clearance code may not be entered directly.
• BSMI: Commodity inspection exemption Q&A (express imports) | Document date: 2023-09-26; commodities subject to mandatory inspection imported as freight express may not use a simplified declaration and must be declared with a formal import declaration; commodities subject to mandatory inspection imported without completing the inspection procedure are punished by fine when found.
• BSMI: Commodity inspection exemption Q&A (use after import) | Document date: 2023-09-26; non-sales items for own use, samples, etc. imported under exemption may not be sold or given away afterwards (the answer to xItem=85306 in the same series is also "no").
• BSMI: Item lists of electronics commodities subject to mandatory inspection | Document date: Certification Registration and Type Approval batch-inspection list 2026/9/23, Declaration of Conformity list 2026/3/8, batch-inspection list 2020/3/19; automatic data processing machines (item 17), computer monitors (item 22), wireless keyboards (item 19), wireless mice (item 21), headphones (limited to those with power input, item 62) and power adapters (items 14 and 16) are in the Certification Registration and Type Approval list; motherboards and add-in cards with I/O (item 14, reference tariff line 8473.30.00.00-6), wired keyboards (item 6) and storage units (items 7 to 11) are in the Declaration of Conformity list; the words "graphics card" do not appear verbatim; the tariff lines for SSDs, CPUs, memory integrated circuits and PC-specific fans are not found in the three electronics lists, this page does not judge the tariff lines of memory modules and coolers, and other category lists were not checked on this page.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Regulations Governing the Manufacture, Import and Declaration of Regulated Telecommunications Radio-Frequency Equipment | Document date: amended ROC year 114, month 2, day 3; Article 9: for applying to import second-level regulated telecommunications radio-frequency equipment, wireless telecommunications terminal equipment or low-power radio-frequency devices for own use are only for the applicant's own use and may not be transferred or used commercially; where imported by post or other means not carried in person, no more than two units at a time may be imported with a written undertaking, without applying for an import approval certificate; three or more units and up to ten units by post require an application; the same natural person or legal person is limited to ten units within one year, and a natural person must be at least eighteen years old; the provision does not name express cargo or consolidated shipping.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Telecommunications Management Act | Document date: provisions currently in force (the page shows an amendment date of ROC year 115, month 8, day 5); Article 65: regulated telecommunications radio-frequency equipment announced by the competent authority must obtain approval before it may be manufactured or imported; Article 66: except by special approval, regulated telecommunications radio-frequency equipment must comply with technical specifications and pass type approval before it may be sold; Article 80: a person who imports regulated telecommunications radio-frequency equipment without approval is fined not less than NT$100,000 and not more than NT$1,000,000 and notified to correct within a time limit, and the equipment may be confiscated regardless of who owns it.
• International Trade Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs: Rules permitting import of small quantities of mainland-origin goods without an import permit | Document date: August 19, 2022 (No. 11104603570); exclusion list announced March 10, 2026 (No. 11550200230, https://www.trade.gov.tw/Pages/Detail.aspx?nodeid=39&pid=812458); MW0 = import from mainland China is prohibited; the exception covers mainland industrial products in tariff Chapters 25–97 outside the Table of Restricted Import Goods: where the CIF value assessed by Customs for the whole declaration is NT$32,000 or less and any single product is within 24 pieces, with a 40 kg limit only for goods that cannot be counted in pieces, no import permit is required and the MXX provisions need not be followed; a single product is determined by model and may not be split by size, specification or color; electric motorcycles, electric bicycles and their controllers (8711.60.10, 8711.60.20, 8543.70.99.50) are excluded by announcement, and Chapters 1–24 do not qualify; item 3 of the announcement states that other import regulations must still be followed.
• Customs Administration: Which mainland-origin goods are permitted to be imported? | Document date: 2026-07-09; where none of the codes MW0 or MP1 is listed in the import regulation column of the tariff, the mainland-origin goods are permitted to be imported and no import permit is needed; where another code is marked, other rules must be followed at declaration; the Customs Administration's "Import regulations for each category of goods" (2026-09-03) states that goods marked MW0 are not permitted to be imported.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Commodity Inspection Act | Document date: the page shows an amendment date of ROC year 96, month 7, day 11, and the database footer is compiled up to 115-09-18 (whether later amendments are in force is unconfirmed); Article 6: commodities subject to mandatory inspection that do not meet the inspection requirements may not leave the factory or be exported or imported (except commodities that BSMI has determined to be of low hazard risk); Article 8: for commodities produced abroad, the party obliged to apply for inspection is the importer of the commodity (or the client where sold in the name of a domestic client); Article 9, paragraph 1, subparagraph 3: non-sales items for own use, commercial samples, exhibits or items for R&D testing that are exported or imported may be exempt from inspection; Article 60: a party obliged to apply for inspection who exports or imports commodities that do not meet the inspection requirements is fined not less than NT$200,000 and not more than NT$2,000,000; Article 60-1: where the total price of the commodities is below NT$100,000, a fine of up to two times the total price may be imposed, but not less than NT$10,000.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Trademark Act | Document date: most recent amendment ROC year 112, month 5, day 24; Articles 68, 70 and 95 to 97 as amended on ROC year 111, month 5, day 4 still await an implementation date to be set by the Executive Yuan; Article 95 (text currently in force): without the consent of the trademark right holder, using a trademark identical to a registered trademark on the same goods or services for marketing purposes, etc., is punishable by imprisonment of up to three years, detention, and/or a fine of up to NT$200,000; Article 97 (text currently in force): a person who knowingly sells goods described in the preceding two articles, or who possesses, displays, exports or imports them for the purpose of selling, is punishable by imprisonment of up to one year, detention, and/or a fine of up to NT$50,000, and the same applies where done through electronic media or the internet; the version of Article 97 shown on the database's main page is the amended, not-yet-effective one of ROC year 111 and is not cited on this page; the provisions make no separate rule for purely personal use, and this page draws no conclusion.
• Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Civil Aviation Act and Regulations Governing the Air Transport of Dangerous Goods | Document date: Civil Aviation Act 112-06-28; Regulations Governing the Air Transport of Dangerous Goods 107-12-10; the full text of neither law contains the word "lithium"; air transport of dangerous goods must comply with the classification, packaging, marking and declaration rules approved by the Civil Aeronautics Administration; the announcements and technical specifications on whether lithium batteries may go by air are not found on this page, and the Customs Administration's rules for express cargo containing lithium batteries are also not found, so this page does not state which route goods containing batteries take.
• COMPUTEX TAIPEI official opening press release | Document date: 2026-06-02; 2026/6/2–5, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Halls 1 and 2 and Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1, theme AI Together; officially about 1,500 exhibitors and about 6,000 booths; exhibitors named in the press release include Acer, ASUS, Intel, MediaTek, Foxconn and GIGABYTE.
• COMPUTEX TAIPEI official Show Profile | Document date: consultation date 2026-09-30; organized by TAITRA and TCA; the venues also list the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC); the number of countries is given as 33 countries or regions.
• COMPUTEX TAIPEI official closing press release and 2027 venue announcement | Document date: 2026-06-05; the 2026-09-22 press release is also at https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/en/news/035C3CADA83D9EAA/info.html; 111,312 buyers and visitors from 152 countries and regions; the 2027 show dates are 2027/6/1–4 and the venues are Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Halls 1 and 2 and Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1; the 9/22 press release headline says buyers, while the Post Show page (https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/en/menu/CD908435F3DAD09DD0636733C6861689/info.html) says visitors and 32 countries, so the official wording and the number of countries are inconsistent.
• World Trade Organization: Information Technology Agreement (ITA) participants | Document date: list as of 2026-06-09 (consulted 2026-09-30); Taiwan is listed as an ITA participant under the name Chinese Taipei; the 0% on this page comes from checking the tariff CSV line by line, not from inferring it from the ITA.

Research literature

Frequently Asked Questions About Shipping PC Parts to Taiwan After COMPUTEX

Has COMPUTEX 2026 ended? When is the next one?

How much tax applies to PC parts imported from China?

How does the NT$2,000 duty-free rule work? What does "more than 6 times" mean?

Do imported graphics cards and motherboards need BSMI inspection?

Can wireless keyboards and mice, Bluetooth headphones and wireless network cards be imported directly?

Can second-hand or refurbished parts be shipped?

What happens if I buy counterfeit chips or gray-market goods?

How are graphics cards and peripherals with batteries shipped?

Is the HowBridge Shenzhen warehouse next to Huaqiangbei?

How is freight calculated?

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