Miscellaneous chemical products. (38)
Miscellaneous chemical products. (statistical code 38): imports in August 2026 were JPY 95,273,607,000 (+18.0% year on year). Main origins: People's Republic of China (26.7%), United States of America (21.9%), Germany (6.9%), Indonesia (5.1%), Taiwan (5.1%). Figures for August 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 187,893,166,000, a trade surplus of JPY 92,619,559,000. (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 95,273,607,000 | — | — | +18.0% |
| 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% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 86,980,888,000 | — | — | +1.3% |
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 2022)
Imports in 2022 were JPY 1,316,766,575,000; in 2025, JPY 1,064,861,811,000, about 81% of the 2022 level.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 793,071,956,000 | JPY 1,470,013,183,000 | surplus JPY 676,941,227,000 |
| 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 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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