Japan | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020

Exports structure from Japan in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 19.1% (122 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 17.1% (110 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 15.9% (102 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 7.71% (49 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 6.4% (41 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 3.99% (25 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.55% (22 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.32% (14.9 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.07% (13.3 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 1.88% (12 billion US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products

What did Japan export in 2020?

Japan's Top Exports in 2020:

• 12.6% ($80 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.
• 4.52% ($29 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 4.21% ($27 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 3.11% ($19.9 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
• 1.9% ($12.1 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.
• 1.66% ($10.6 billion): 8901 - Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods.
• 1.39% ($8.94 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.
• 1.29% ($8.32 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
• 1.24% ($7.96 billion): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers.

Imports structure to Japan in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 16.6% (105 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 15% (95 billion US$): 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
• 10.2% (65 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.51% (28 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 4.49% (28 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.42% (21 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 3.11% (19.7 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 2.54% (16.1 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 2.48% (15.8 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.37% (15 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof

What did Japan import in 2020?

Japan's Top Imports in 2020:

• 6.84% ($43 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
• 5.36% ($34 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 3.93% ($25 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.
• 3.53% ($22 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.
• 2.97% ($18.8 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 2.66% ($16.9 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.
• 2.51% ($15.9 billion): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
• 1.73% ($11 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.
• 1.62% ($10.3 billion): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or not obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products.