Adding in trade with Hong Kong, the amount rises to US$93.41 billion.
In the five months to May, cross-strait trade rose 14.3 percent from a year earlier to US$33.89 billion, the Bureau of Foreign Trade said last week.
The figure accounted for 20 percent of Taiwan's total external trade, compared with 19.4 percent a year earlier, the bureau said.
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