TAIPEI - Taiwan's export orders from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong hit an all-time high in April, according to the island's economic authority Monday.

The value of cross-Straits export orders stood at $10.6 billion in April, up 13.6 percent year on year, outpacing growth in orders from the island's other major trade partners.

Cross-Straits export orders accounted about 27 percent of the total, slightly lower than those from the United States, which also expanded 9.6 percent over the same month of last year.

Among all product categories, mainland and Hong Kong orders for electronic products and machinery rose 17.7 percent and 35.8 percent, respectively.

In the first four month of 2018, Taiwan's export orders stood at $157 billion, also a new record for the same period.