The manufacturing sector has reversed its recent trend of contraction and expanded for the first time since November 2018 as the seasonally adjusted Taiwan PMI rose 2.6 percentage points to 51.7 percent in April. The non-manufacturing sector expanded at a faster rate in April as the seasonally unadjusted Taiwan NMI registered 55.6 percent, 2.3 percentage points higher than the 53.3 percent in March.