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$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 18.9% (121 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 15.9% (102 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 6.4% (41 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 5.83% (37 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.98% (25 billion US$): 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
• 4.5% ($28 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
• 3.67% ($23 billion): 8486 - Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines & apparatus specified in note 11 (C) to this Chapter
• 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 - Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals
• 1.3% ($8.37 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter
• 1.29% ($8.32 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 1.25% ($8.04 billion): 8443 - Printing machinery; used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof

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

• 16.6% (105 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 15.2% (96 billion US$): 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
• 10.5% (67 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.5% (28 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 4.07% (25 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.42% (21 billion US$): 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$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.35% (14.9 billion US$): 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
• 3.92% ($24 billion): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones
• 3.08% ($19.6 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
• 2.95% ($18.7 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 from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 1.62% ($10.3 billion): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc