Miscellaneous chemical products. (38)
Miscellaneous chemical products. (statistical code 38): imports in September 2026 were JPY 107,547,978,000 (+22.8% year on year). Main origins: United States of America (25.5%), People's Republic of China (23.5%), Germany (5.9%), Indonesia (5.3%), Taiwan (5.0%). Figures for September 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 193,598,134,000, a trade surplus of JPY 86,050,156,000. (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 107,547,978,000 | — | — | +22.8% |
| August 2026 | revised | JPY 95,297,559,000 | — | — | +18.1% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 105,347,152,000 | — | — | +22.4% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 102,683,742,000 | — | — | +20.6% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 102,767,465,000 | — | — | +22.2% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 99,835,998,000 | — | — | +19.1% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 100,477,277,000 | — | — | +8.0% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 87,137,892,000 | — | — | +4.1% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 99,548,823,000 | — | — | +0.5% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 97,167,264,000 | — | — | +8.7% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 95,978,301,000 | — | — | +13.9% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 88,600,653,000 | — | — | -2.4% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 87,575,587,000 | — | — | +0.7% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 80,713,407,000 | — | — | -9.9% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 86,035,846,000 | — | — | -7.8% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 85,118,241,000 | — | — | -0.4% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 84,112,375,000 | — | — | -0.8% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 83,794,728,000 | — | — | +1.4% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 93,044,710,000 | — | — | +14.8% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 83,710,463,000 | — | — | +1.5% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 99,010,236,000 | — | — | +16.1% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 89,409,775,000 | — | — | +19.4% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 84,261,467,000 | — | — | -2.2% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 90,758,996,000 | — | — | +11.2% |
Subcategories
- Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures.
- Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black.
- 3803
- 3804
- Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine and other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing α-terpineol as the main constituent.
- Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums.
- 3807
- Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers).
- Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included.
- Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods.
- Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils.
- Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics.
- 3813
- 3814
- Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included.
- 3816
- 3817
- 3818
- 3819
- 3820
- 3821
- Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 30.06; certified reference materials.
- Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols.
- Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included.
- Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in Note 6 to this Chapter.
- 3826
- Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included.
- 38XX
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Imports in 1988 were JPY 155,869,800,000; in 2025, JPY 1,064,861,811,000, about 6.8 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | JPY 900,643,886,000 | JPY 1,663,611,317,000 | surplus JPY 762,967,431,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 1,064,861,811,000 | JPY 2,078,874,296,000 | surplus JPY 1,014,012,485,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 1,035,974,785,000 | JPY 2,004,037,959,000 | surplus JPY 968,063,174,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 1,005,340,223,000 | JPY 1,760,811,387,000 | surplus JPY 755,471,164,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 1,316,766,575,000 | JPY 1,874,290,539,000 | surplus JPY 557,523,964,000 |
| 2021 | JPY 822,591,091,000 | JPY 1,604,422,381,000 | surplus JPY 781,831,290,000 |
| 2020 | JPY 653,610,575,000 | JPY 1,288,733,530,000 | surplus JPY 635,122,955,000 |
| 2019 | JPY 637,112,098,000 | JPY 1,295,954,369,000 | surplus JPY 658,842,271,000 |
| 2018 | JPY 656,336,152,000 | JPY 1,311,432,343,000 | surplus JPY 655,096,191,000 |
| 2017 | JPY 605,759,084,000 | JPY 1,156,325,333,000 | surplus JPY 550,566,249,000 |
| 2016 | JPY 544,668,070,000 | JPY 1,035,749,435,000 | surplus JPY 491,081,365,000 |
| 2015 | JPY 622,690,724,000 | JPY 1,107,680,445,000 | surplus JPY 484,989,721,000 |
| 2014 | JPY 575,285,183,000 | JPY 1,063,504,028,000 | surplus JPY 488,218,845,000 |
| 2013 | JPY 524,145,029,000 | JPY 986,754,945,000 | surplus JPY 462,609,916,000 |
| 2012 | JPY 490,986,450,000 | JPY 951,904,568,000 | surplus JPY 460,918,118,000 |
| 2011 | JPY 585,252,534,000 | JPY 1,052,514,614,000 | surplus JPY 467,262,080,000 |
| 2010 | JPY 494,144,177,000 | JPY 1,066,932,934,000 | surplus JPY 572,788,757,000 |
| 2009 | JPY 409,635,609,000 | JPY 804,322,151,000 | surplus JPY 394,686,542,000 |
| 2008 | JPY 592,979,979,000 | JPY 1,212,498,083,000 | surplus JPY 619,518,104,000 |
| 2007 | JPY 614,293,358,000 | JPY 1,319,645,866,000 | surplus JPY 705,352,508,000 |
| 2006 | JPY 527,331,489,000 | JPY 1,119,963,254,000 | surplus JPY 592,631,765,000 |
| 2005 | JPY 442,372,656,000 | JPY 883,515,220,000 | surplus JPY 441,142,564,000 |
| 2004 | JPY 391,629,604,000 | JPY 742,898,078,000 | surplus JPY 351,268,474,000 |
| 2003 | JPY 379,636,204,000 | JPY 619,958,593,000 | surplus JPY 240,322,389,000 |
| 2002 | JPY 359,031,491,000 | JPY 590,935,662,000 | surplus JPY 231,904,171,000 |
| 2001 | JPY 367,486,108,000 | JPY 515,976,269,000 | surplus JPY 148,490,161,000 |
| 2000 | JPY 349,190,083,000 | JPY 547,986,245,000 | surplus JPY 198,796,162,000 |
| 1999 | JPY 271,655,996,000 | JPY 456,507,649,000 | surplus JPY 184,851,653,000 |
| 1998 | JPY 304,111,611,000 | JPY 443,660,020,000 | surplus JPY 139,548,409,000 |
| 1997 | JPY 291,261,280,000 | JPY 468,423,738,000 | surplus JPY 177,162,458,000 |
| 1996 | JPY 265,856,057,000 | JPY 379,151,819,000 | surplus JPY 113,295,762,000 |
| 1995 | JPY 205,608,615,000 | JPY 318,647,286,000 | surplus JPY 113,038,671,000 |
| 1994 | JPY 191,707,952,000 | JPY 283,240,264,000 | surplus JPY 91,532,312,000 |
| 1993 | JPY 185,424,947,000 | JPY 242,875,981,000 | surplus JPY 57,451,034,000 |
| 1992 | JPY 217,185,332,000 | JPY 242,415,138,000 | surplus JPY 25,229,806,000 |
| 1991 | JPY 238,528,126,000 | JPY 241,362,518,000 | surplus JPY 2,834,392,000 |
| 1990 | JPY 220,741,968,000 | JPY 231,378,279,000 | surplus JPY 10,636,311,000 |
| 1989 | JPY 189,013,210,000 | JPY 200,435,354,000 | surplus JPY 11,422,144,000 |
| 1988 | JPY 155,869,800,000 | JPY 183,363,649,000 | surplus JPY 27,493,849,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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