Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder. (12)
Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder. (statistical code 12): imports in August 2026 were JPY 65,852,350,000 (+6.4% year on year). Main origins: United States of America (38.5%), Canada (23.3%), Australia (9.6%), People's Republic of China (7.8%), Brazil (6.4%). Figures for August 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 1,167,007,000, a trade deficit of JPY 64,685,343,000. (imports: preliminary; exports: revised)
Export statistics for this code
Monthly statistics
| Month | Status | Import value | Quantity | Unit price | Year-on-year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | preliminary | JPY 65,852,350,000 | — | — | +6.4% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 76,999,828,000 | — | — | +14.7% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 78,446,148,000 | — | — | +15.7% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 66,314,541,000 | — | — | -16.7% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 67,520,434,000 | — | — | +2.8% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 69,257,319,000 | — | — | +17.2% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 50,901,668,000 | — | — | -1.3% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 60,304,410,000 | — | — | +2.9% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 71,112,978,000 | — | — | +5.1% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 61,955,613,000 | — | — | +1.8% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 66,976,826,000 | — | — | +8.2% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 63,996,042,000 | — | — | +12.2% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 61,899,920,000 | — | — | -1.5% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 67,114,553,000 | — | — | -12.0% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 67,817,024,000 | — | — | -5.3% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 79,580,562,000 | — | — | +1.8% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 65,666,319,000 | — | — | -15.5% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 59,113,695,000 | — | — | -10.3% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 51,559,122,000 | — | — | -13.8% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 58,616,625,000 | — | — | +2.1% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 67,646,699,000 | — | — | +21.4% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 60,879,582,000 | — | — | -11.3% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 61,894,665,000 | — | — | -16.9% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 57,040,584,000 | — | — | +0.9% |
Subcategories
- Soya beans, whether or not broken
- Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken
- 1203
- 1204
- Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken
- 1206
- Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken
- Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard
- Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing
- Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin
- Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered
- Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety Cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included
- 1213
- Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets
- 12XX
Long-term trend (from 2022)
Imports in 2022 were JPY 908,120,735,000; in 2025, JPY 775,409,279,000, about 85% of the 2022 level.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 535,596,698,000 | JPY 10,537,319,000 | deficit JPY 525,059,379,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 775,409,279,000 | JPY 15,621,825,000 | deficit JPY 759,787,454,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 797,241,598,000 | JPY 15,357,463,000 | deficit JPY 781,884,135,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 810,744,549,000 | JPY 14,396,250,000 | deficit JPY 796,348,299,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 908,120,735,000 | JPY 14,138,835,000 | deficit JPY 893,981,900,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
API and MCP
No API key required. An optional API key gives you a dedicated quota of 1,000 requests per day that is not affected by congestion (free at https://data.washutrading.com/register/).
Example API request for this item: https://data.washutrading.com/api/v1/series?code=12&flow=import