Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. (19)
Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. (statistical code 19): imports in September 2026 were JPY 20,899,113,000 (-4.8% year on year), quantity 51,247,919 KG, unit price JPY 408 per KG. Main origins: People's Republic of China (16.4%), Republic of Korea (10.7%), Italy (10.3%), Malaysia (10.1%), Thailand (7.6%). Figures for September 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 10,613,698,000, a trade deficit of JPY 10,285,415,000. (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 20,899,113,000 | 51,247,919 | JPY 408 | -4.8% |
| August 2026 | revised | 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% |
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 1988)
Imports in 1988 were JPY 25,835,362,000; in 2025, JPY 242,689,453,000, about 9.4 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | JPY 189,829,099,000 | JPY 85,532,111,000 | deficit JPY 104,296,988,000 |
| 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 |
| 2021 | JPY 156,106,745,000 | JPY 98,382,073,000 | deficit JPY 57,724,672,000 |
| 2020 | JPY 146,529,433,000 | JPY 85,754,182,000 | deficit JPY 60,775,251,000 |
| 2019 | JPY 142,448,680,000 | JPY 78,297,235,000 | deficit JPY 64,151,445,000 |
| 2018 | JPY 136,461,091,000 | JPY 74,769,597,000 | deficit JPY 61,691,494,000 |
| 2017 | JPY 136,908,776,000 | JPY 67,834,418,000 | deficit JPY 69,074,358,000 |
| 2016 | JPY 121,350,827,000 | JPY 70,202,053,000 | deficit JPY 51,148,774,000 |
| 2015 | JPY 138,496,932,000 | JPY 63,419,366,000 | deficit JPY 75,077,566,000 |
| 2014 | JPY 142,653,420,000 | JPY 46,769,727,000 | deficit JPY 95,883,693,000 |
| 2013 | JPY 133,982,858,000 | JPY 36,186,477,000 | deficit JPY 97,796,381,000 |
| 2012 | JPY 117,013,393,000 | JPY 28,544,574,000 | deficit JPY 88,468,819,000 |
| 2011 | JPY 112,889,567,000 | JPY 29,429,103,000 | deficit JPY 83,460,464,000 |
| 2010 | JPY 104,790,018,000 | JPY 39,943,423,000 | deficit JPY 64,846,595,000 |
| 2009 | JPY 102,964,053,000 | JPY 36,132,526,000 | deficit JPY 66,831,527,000 |
| 2008 | JPY 123,163,614,000 | JPY 33,911,894,000 | deficit JPY 89,251,720,000 |
| 2007 | JPY 124,173,516,000 | JPY 30,362,770,000 | deficit JPY 93,810,746,000 |
| 2006 | JPY 119,593,601,000 | JPY 25,587,654,000 | deficit JPY 94,005,947,000 |
| 2005 | JPY 111,884,936,000 | JPY 22,787,407,000 | deficit JPY 89,097,529,000 |
| 2004 | JPY 105,080,662,000 | JPY 20,476,269,000 | deficit JPY 84,604,393,000 |
| 2003 | JPY 101,135,672,000 | JPY 19,500,967,000 | deficit JPY 81,634,705,000 |
| 2002 | JPY 98,910,874,000 | JPY 19,908,033,000 | deficit JPY 79,002,841,000 |
| 2001 | JPY 91,475,695,000 | JPY 19,280,551,000 | deficit JPY 72,195,144,000 |
| 2000 | JPY 74,460,663,000 | JPY 18,773,097,000 | deficit JPY 55,687,566,000 |
| 1999 | JPY 75,762,924,000 | JPY 19,012,579,000 | deficit JPY 56,750,345,000 |
| 1998 | JPY 82,601,968,000 | JPY 18,800,557,000 | deficit JPY 63,801,411,000 |
| 1997 | JPY 82,994,016,000 | JPY 18,182,151,000 | deficit JPY 64,811,865,000 |
| 1996 | JPY 77,824,940,000 | JPY 15,751,335,000 | deficit JPY 62,073,605,000 |
| 1995 | JPY 58,048,595,000 | JPY 15,829,253,000 | deficit JPY 42,219,342,000 |
| 1994 | JPY 52,439,670,000 | JPY 21,920,347,000 | deficit JPY 30,519,323,000 |
| 1993 | JPY 39,605,433,000 | JPY 27,292,645,000 | deficit JPY 12,312,788,000 |
| 1992 | JPY 37,783,648,000 | JPY 26,022,078,000 | deficit JPY 11,761,570,000 |
| 1991 | JPY 34,724,726,000 | JPY 24,290,113,000 | deficit JPY 10,434,613,000 |
| 1990 | JPY 34,077,336,000 | JPY 25,457,591,000 | deficit JPY 8,619,745,000 |
| 1989 | JPY 34,292,989,000 | JPY 21,301,191,000 | deficit JPY 12,991,798,000 |
| 1988 | JPY 25,835,362,000 | JPY 16,182,007,000 | deficit JPY 9,653,355,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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