Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included. (04)
Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included. (statistical code 04): imports in September 2026 were JPY 24,628,089,000 (+5.9% year on year), quantity 34,489,377 KG, unit price JPY 714 per KG. Main origins: New Zealand (22.3%), United States of America (20.7%), Australia (11.9%), Italy (8.5%), France (6.7%). Figures for September 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 1,654,134,000, a trade deficit of JPY 22,973,955,000. (imports: preliminary; exports: revised)
Export statistics for this code
Monthly statistics
| Month | Status | Import value | Quantity | Unit price | Year-on-year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | preliminary | JPY 24,628,089,000 | 34,489,377 | JPY 714 | +5.9% |
| August 2026 | revised | JPY 24,248,455,000 | 34,474,471 | JPY 703 | +4.3% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 28,293,567,000 | 38,985,260 | JPY 726 | +15.4% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 26,264,129,000 | 38,257,645 | JPY 687 | -1.9% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 23,907,220,000 | 34,267,322 | JPY 698 | -0.2% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 29,877,868,000 | 39,407,842 | JPY 758 | +10.7% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 29,224,311,000 | 42,192,404 | JPY 693 | +13.6% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 22,246,283,000 | 31,551,096 | JPY 705 | +0.5% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 25,057,430,000 | 34,154,658 | JPY 734 | +18.0% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 27,711,614,000 | 37,988,293 | JPY 729 | +14.8% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 24,389,953,000 | 34,430,131 | JPY 708 | -1.0% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 28,384,600,000 | 38,847,048 | JPY 731 | +18.6% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 23,251,458,000 | 33,626,580 | JPY 691 | +14.8% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 23,248,149,000 | 34,095,767 | JPY 682 | -7.7% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 24,517,447,000 | 36,121,524 | JPY 679 | +1.2% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 26,776,179,000 | 39,823,209 | JPY 672 | +19.5% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 23,947,712,000 | 37,286,462 | JPY 642 | -7.6% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 26,979,104,000 | 38,025,004 | JPY 710 | +0.8% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 25,722,425,000 | 42,046,437 | JPY 612 | +11.7% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 22,125,888,000 | 33,126,137 | JPY 668 | +15.6% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 21,234,345,000 | 31,262,386 | JPY 679 | +7.8% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 24,134,649,000 | 36,568,999 | JPY 660 | +9.1% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 24,642,870,000 | 37,313,731 | JPY 660 | +2.6% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 23,930,361,000 | 38,550,499 | JPY 621 | +1.6% |
Subcategories
- Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
- Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
- Yogurt; buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa.
- Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, not elsewhere specified or included
- Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads
- Cheese and curd
- Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked
- Birds' eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
- 0409
- Insects and other edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included.
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Imports in 1988 were JPY 68,605,383,000; in 2025, JPY 298,288,874,000, about 4.3 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | JPY 233,747,352,000 | JPY 13,211,216,000 | deficit JPY 220,536,136,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 298,288,874,000 | JPY 16,029,908,000 | deficit JPY 282,258,966,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 279,326,756,000 | JPY 13,898,824,000 | deficit JPY 265,427,932,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 284,666,321,000 | JPY 15,501,961,000 | deficit JPY 269,164,360,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 259,317,179,000 | JPY 19,565,797,000 | deficit JPY 239,751,382,000 |
| 2021 | JPY 199,623,492,000 | JPY 11,574,350,000 | deficit JPY 188,049,142,000 |
| 2020 | JPY 198,513,565,000 | JPY 8,717,740,000 | deficit JPY 189,795,825,000 |
| 2019 | Not available (source gap) | JPY 5,591,455,000 | Not available (source gap) |
| 2018 | JPY 204,376,040,000 | JPY 4,874,153,000 | deficit JPY 199,501,887,000 |
| 2017 | JPY 189,510,345,000 | JPY 4,342,338,000 | deficit JPY 185,168,007,000 |
| 2016 | JPY 155,965,813,000 | JPY 3,840,802,000 | deficit JPY 152,125,011,000 |
| 2015 | JPY 190,782,290,000 | JPY 3,148,780,000 | deficit JPY 187,633,510,000 |
| 2014 | JPY 189,289,983,000 | JPY 2,350,990,000 | deficit JPY 186,938,993,000 |
| 2013 | JPY 157,575,966,000 | JPY 1,668,288,000 | deficit JPY 155,907,678,000 |
| 2012 | JPY 131,481,865,000 | JPY 1,221,113,000 | deficit JPY 130,260,752,000 |
| 2011 | JPY 131,829,893,000 | JPY 1,647,301,000 | deficit JPY 130,182,592,000 |
| 2010 | JPY 116,590,543,000 | JPY 4,106,732,000 | deficit JPY 112,483,811,000 |
| 2009 | JPY 107,842,457,000 | JPY 4,250,543,000 | deficit JPY 103,591,914,000 |
| 2008 | JPY 155,396,302,000 | JPY 2,316,044,000 | deficit JPY 153,080,258,000 |
| 2007 | JPY 148,564,485,000 | JPY 2,448,694,000 | deficit JPY 146,115,791,000 |
| 2006 | JPY 119,006,623,000 | JPY 1,471,299,000 | deficit JPY 117,535,324,000 |
| 2005 | JPY 117,435,538,000 | JPY 1,118,082,000 | deficit JPY 116,317,456,000 |
| 2004 | JPY 107,125,288,000 | JPY 826,636,000 | deficit JPY 106,298,652,000 |
| 2003 | JPY 99,068,272,000 | JPY 754,072,000 | deficit JPY 98,314,200,000 |
| 2002 | JPY 105,445,011,000 | JPY 677,618,000 | deficit JPY 104,767,393,000 |
| 2001 | JPY 101,374,491,000 | JPY 710,581,000 | deficit JPY 100,663,910,000 |
| 2000 | JPY 84,673,721,000 | JPY 698,600,000 | deficit JPY 83,975,121,000 |
| 1999 | JPY 88,823,075,000 | JPY 544,615,000 | deficit JPY 88,278,460,000 |
| 1998 | JPY 104,474,886,000 | JPY 408,484,000 | deficit JPY 104,066,402,000 |
| 1997 | JPY 102,625,056,000 | JPY 335,690,000 | deficit JPY 102,289,366,000 |
| 1996 | JPY 92,422,370,000 | JPY 316,702,000 | deficit JPY 92,105,668,000 |
| 1995 | JPY 77,031,048,000 | JPY 308,488,000 | deficit JPY 76,722,560,000 |
| 1994 | JPY 66,733,369,000 | JPY 242,133,000 | deficit JPY 66,491,236,000 |
| 1993 | JPY 68,426,103,000 | JPY 280,234,000 | deficit JPY 68,145,869,000 |
| 1992 | JPY 78,204,455,000 | JPY 271,339,000 | deficit JPY 77,933,116,000 |
| 1991 | JPY 88,563,093,000 | JPY 231,685,000 | deficit JPY 88,331,408,000 |
| 1990 | JPY 81,924,291,000 | JPY 219,454,000 | deficit JPY 81,704,837,000 |
| 1989 | JPY 81,208,054,000 | JPY 224,700,000 | deficit JPY 80,983,354,000 |
| 1988 | JPY 68,605,383,000 | JPY 282,207,000 | deficit JPY 68,323,176,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
The e-Stat table 'Final Trade Statistics by Commodity and Country (Imports), 2016–2020' (Ministry of Finance Trade Statistics of Japan) lacks data for some commodities from April 2018 to December 2019, so values for this period are not shown. This is a problem in the source data; official annual totals from the Ministry of Finance differ.
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