The US is Taiwan's second-largest export market after China. Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea each ships about a fifth of its goods to the world's largest economy.
China Airlines sank 15 percent. Taiwan's largest air carrier got almost two-fifths of its sales from the US last year, according to Bloomberg data. Compeq Manufacturing Co, the island's No. 1 maker of boards that connect parts in cellphones made by companies such as and Motorola Inc, lost 11 percent.
In Japan, Tokyo Electron Ltd., the world's second-largest maker of semiconductor production equipment, and Kyocera Corp, the world's No. 1 maker of ceramic packaging used to protect finished microchips, also declined.
Other losers included UFJ Holdings Inc, Japan's fourth-largest lender by assets, which dropped 7.2 percent in the week just ended. Inspectors at the Financial Services Agency found documents at UFJ Bank Ltd. in October that didn't match ones it had submitted earlier, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported.
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd led the slide among drugmakers in India.
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