Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. (19)
Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. (statistical code 19): imports in August 2026 were JPY 21,104,003,000 (+4.3% year on year), quantity 51,343,774 KG, unit price JPY 411 per KG. Main origins: People's Republic of China (18.4%), Italy (10.2%), Republic of Korea (10.1%), Malaysia (8.5%), Viet Nam (7.8%). Figures for August 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 9,074,546,000, a trade deficit of JPY 12,029,457,000. (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 21,104,003,000 | 51,343,774 | JPY 411 | +4.3% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 23,359,781,000 | 54,172,596 | JPY 431 | +14.1% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 20,766,529,000 | 50,014,920 | JPY 415 | +7.3% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 18,776,139,000 | 45,240,369 | JPY 415 | -0.9% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 21,675,671,000 | 51,167,598 | JPY 424 | +11.5% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 22,456,773,000 | 55,592,601 | JPY 404 | +14.6% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 19,571,705,000 | 46,886,367 | JPY 417 | +12.6% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 21,219,385,000 | 50,908,520 | JPY 417 | +3.4% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 21,538,488,000 | 50,655,103 | JPY 425 | +5.5% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 20,992,713,000 | 51,422,546 | JPY 408 | +12.7% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 22,278,352,000 | 55,230,580 | JPY 403 | +4.9% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 21,945,788,000 | 58,528,040 | JPY 375 | +9.9% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 20,229,579,000 | 52,687,191 | JPY 384 | +7.2% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 20,471,665,000 | 56,744,372 | JPY 361 | -5.0% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 19,355,493,000 | 51,498,543 | JPY 376 | +6.3% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 18,947,104,000 | 50,477,922 | JPY 375 | -4.3% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 19,437,194,000 | 51,639,223 | JPY 376 | +0.3% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 19,595,192,000 | 49,564,157 | JPY 395 | +2.3% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 17,383,661,000 | 44,723,072 | JPY 389 | +10.1% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 20,514,224,000 | 49,514,512 | JPY 414 | +39.7% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 20,411,978,000 | 52,534,870 | JPY 389 | +16.1% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 18,624,428,000 | 46,903,675 | JPY 397 | -5.0% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 21,244,850,000 | 54,389,465 | JPY 391 | +16.2% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 19,971,347,000 | 54,947,862 | JPY 363 | +13.5% |
Subcategories
- Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included
- Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared
- 1903
- Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included
- Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products
- 19XX
Long-term trend (from 2022)
Imports in 2022 were JPY 198,558,049,000; in 2025, JPY 242,689,453,000, about 1.2 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 168,929,986,000 | JPY 74,918,413,000 | deficit JPY 94,011,573,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 242,689,453,000 | JPY 115,466,351,000 | deficit JPY 127,223,102,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 227,678,890,000 | JPY 116,352,356,000 | deficit JPY 111,326,534,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 199,555,628,000 | JPY 107,845,045,000 | deficit JPY 91,710,583,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 198,558,049,000 | JPY 109,225,775,000 | deficit JPY 89,332,274,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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