Taiwan’s year-on-year export growth was 11.7 percent last month, accelerating from 9.9 percent in September, the Ministry of Finance said. The median of 13 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey was for a 5 percent gain.

Imports rose 11.8 percent in October for a trade surplus of $3.32 billion. Consumer prices rose 1.22 percent in October from a year earlier, compared with a revised 1.37 percent the prior month, another report showed.