Japan | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

Exports structure from Japan in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 21% (148 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 17.8% (125 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 14.5% (102 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 7.18% (50 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 6.36% (44 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 3.69% (26 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.58% (25 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.52% (17.8 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 1.98% (14 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 1.95% (13.7 billion US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures

What did Japan export in 2019?

Japan's Top Exports in 2019:

• 13.8% ($98 billion): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars.
• 4.63% ($32 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 3.95% ($27 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 2.8% ($19.8 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
• 1.93% ($13.6 billion): 8901 - Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods.
• 1.66% ($11.7 billion): 9010 - Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semiconductor materials), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens.
• 1.55% ($10.9 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
• 1.4% ($9.94 billion): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers.
• 1.21% ($8.6 billion): 8541 - Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodes; mounted piezo-electric crystals.

Imports structure to Japan in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 21% (155 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 13.5% (97 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 9.66% (69 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.18% (30 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.76% (27 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.29% (23 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.08% (22 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.25% (16.2 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.23% (16.1 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 1.98% (14.2 billion US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted

What did Japan import in 2019?

Japan's Top Imports in 2019:

• 10.1% ($73 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
• 6.21% ($44 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 3.41% ($24 billion): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras.
• 3.22% ($23 billion): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
• 2.81% ($20 billion): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included.
• 2.58% ($18.6 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 2.3% ($16.6 billion): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale.
• 1.82% ($13.1 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
• 1.68% ($12.1 billion): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars.