Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement. (25)
Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement. (statistical code 25): imports in August 2026 were JPY 20,869,075,000 (+34.5% year on year). Main origins: People's Republic of China (29.5%), United States of America (19.5%), Australia (16.6%), Mexico (7.3%), Viet Nam (4.5%). Figures for August 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 10,221,395,000, a trade deficit of JPY 10,647,680,000. (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 20,869,075,000 | — | — | +34.5% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 19,484,238,000 | — | — | -5.7% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 20,946,740,000 | — | — | +6.4% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 16,857,155,000 | — | — | -2.8% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 20,326,968,000 | — | — | +4.5% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 18,530,483,000 | — | — | -0.9% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 17,109,927,000 | — | — | -8.7% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 19,764,257,000 | — | — | -20.2% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 19,837,248,000 | — | — | -2.1% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 20,952,139,000 | — | — | +0.2% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 18,081,647,000 | — | — | -11.0% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 19,039,480,000 | — | — | -15.3% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 15,520,380,000 | — | — | +0.5% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 20,655,002,000 | — | — | -7.5% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 19,690,763,000 | — | — | -2.7% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 17,343,988,000 | — | — | -6.7% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 19,444,539,000 | — | — | -5.9% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 18,702,455,000 | — | — | +2.9% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 18,741,888,000 | — | — | +11.6% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 24,754,152,000 | — | — | +17.5% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 20,270,108,000 | — | — | +16.5% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 20,903,146,000 | — | — | -8.5% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 20,320,540,000 | — | — | +2.9% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 22,481,441,000 | — | — | +39.3% |
Subcategories
- 2501
- 2502
- 2503
- Natural graphite
- Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of Chapter 26
- Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 2507
- Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 68.06), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths
- 2509
- Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk
- Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading 28.16
- 2512
- Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat-treated:
- 2514
- Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated
- Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; other magnesium oxide, whether or not pure
- Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders:
- 2521
- Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 28.25
- Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
- Mica, including splittings; mica waste
- Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc
- 2528
- Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar
- Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included
- 25XX
Long-term trend (from 2022)
Imports in 2022 were JPY 252,827,237,000; in 2025, JPY 232,763,681,000, about 92% of the 2022 level.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 153,888,843,000 | JPY 87,323,862,000 | deficit JPY 66,564,981,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 232,763,681,000 | JPY 103,215,883,000 | deficit JPY 129,547,798,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 237,284,174,000 | JPY 90,025,622,000 | deficit JPY 147,258,552,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 227,330,988,000 | JPY 83,030,920,000 | deficit JPY 144,300,068,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 252,827,237,000 | JPY 107,545,549,000 | deficit JPY 145,281,688,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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