Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut). (42)
Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut). (statistical code 42): imports in September 2026 were JPY 81,649,934,000 (+9.8% year on year), quantity 14,017,742 KG, unit price JPY 5,825 per KG. Main origins: People's Republic of China (38.0%), Italy (19.7%), France (17.5%), Viet Nam (5.9%), Spain (4.0%). Figures for September 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 2,012,725,000, a trade deficit of JPY 79,637,209,000. (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 81,649,934,000 | 14,017,742 | JPY 5,825 | +9.8% |
| August 2026 | revised | JPY 86,114,805,000 | 13,861,495 | JPY 6,212 | +14.5% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 97,593,423,000 | 15,492,899 | JPY 6,299 | +13.3% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 92,484,848,000 | 15,060,086 | JPY 6,141 | +18.5% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 77,978,210,000 | 12,981,241 | JPY 6,007 | +0.9% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 88,624,798,000 | 14,764,172 | JPY 6,003 | +5.7% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 76,851,651,000 | 11,283,877 | JPY 6,811 | -1.0% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 89,525,229,000 | 15,720,185 | JPY 5,695 | +7.3% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 95,409,798,000 | 18,370,393 | JPY 5,194 | -4.0% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 91,708,472,000 | 15,660,624 | JPY 5,856 | +0.8% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 82,439,350,000 | 14,758,320 | JPY 5,586 | -3.7% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 92,928,838,000 | 14,807,992 | JPY 6,276 | +3.7% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 74,334,165,000 | 13,728,768 | JPY 5,414 | +2.9% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 75,226,101,000 | 13,422,079 | JPY 5,604 | -24.0% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 86,162,853,000 | 15,772,814 | JPY 5,463 | -15.2% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 78,044,856,000 | 14,513,188 | JPY 5,377 | -6.9% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 77,290,167,000 | 14,188,008 | JPY 5,448 | -12.8% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 83,870,388,000 | 15,874,591 | JPY 5,283 | -1.2% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 77,633,567,000 | 13,912,970 | JPY 5,580 | +3.0% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 83,471,745,000 | 11,213,210 | JPY 7,444 | +0.2% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 99,426,071,000 | 19,231,981 | JPY 5,170 | +7.3% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 91,020,533,000 | 15,831,702 | JPY 5,749 | +7.0% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 85,644,978,000 | 14,962,319 | JPY 5,724 | +0.6% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 89,627,858,000 | 14,750,912 | JPY 6,076 | +1.9% |
Subcategories
- 4201
- Trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; travelling-bags, insulated food or beverages bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping-bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, cigarette-cases, tobacco-pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle -cases, jewellery boxes, powder-boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile materials, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper.
- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather.
- 4205
- 4206
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Imports in 1988 were JPY 175,377,379,000; in 2025, JPY 1,002,536,573,000, about 5.7 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | JPY 786,232,696,000 | JPY 16,155,840,000 | deficit JPY 770,076,856,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 1,002,536,573,000 | JPY 20,539,361,000 | deficit JPY 981,997,212,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 1,047,951,674,000 | JPY 20,708,730,000 | deficit JPY 1,027,242,944,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 912,411,701,000 | JPY 19,812,547,000 | deficit JPY 892,599,154,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 770,057,397,000 | JPY 18,251,941,000 | deficit JPY 751,805,456,000 |
| 2021 | JPY 580,158,688,000 | JPY 15,734,238,000 | deficit JPY 564,424,450,000 |
| 2020 | JPY 543,547,639,000 | JPY 10,741,809,000 | deficit JPY 532,805,830,000 |
| 2019 | JPY 692,865,917,000 | JPY 9,057,809,000 | deficit JPY 683,808,108,000 |
| 2018 | JPY 668,346,218,000 | JPY 8,763,883,000 | deficit JPY 659,582,335,000 |
| 2017 | JPY 641,183,872,000 | JPY 8,155,756,000 | deficit JPY 633,028,116,000 |
| 2016 | JPY 607,331,779,000 | JPY 7,947,254,000 | deficit JPY 599,384,525,000 |
| 2015 | JPY 645,149,677,000 | JPY 7,458,947,000 | deficit JPY 637,690,730,000 |
| 2014 | JPY 606,525,043,000 | JPY 5,682,138,000 | deficit JPY 600,842,905,000 |
| 2013 | JPY 571,637,134,000 | JPY 4,552,989,000 | deficit JPY 567,084,145,000 |
| 2012 | JPY 502,900,941,000 | JPY 4,370,482,000 | deficit JPY 498,530,459,000 |
| 2011 | JPY 454,756,128,000 | JPY 5,220,184,000 | deficit JPY 449,535,944,000 |
| 2010 | JPY 450,540,822,000 | JPY 4,785,306,000 | deficit JPY 445,755,516,000 |
| 2009 | JPY 448,910,095,000 | JPY 4,239,100,000 | deficit JPY 444,670,995,000 |
| 2008 | JPY 544,637,604,000 | JPY 6,240,470,000 | deficit JPY 538,397,134,000 |
| 2007 | JPY 580,799,858,000 | JPY 7,120,462,000 | deficit JPY 573,679,396,000 |
| 2006 | JPY 541,424,080,000 | JPY 6,587,380,000 | deficit JPY 534,836,700,000 |
| 2005 | JPY 483,574,995,000 | JPY 5,653,944,000 | deficit JPY 477,921,051,000 |
| 2004 | JPY 434,276,950,000 | JPY 5,891,968,000 | deficit JPY 428,384,982,000 |
| 2003 | JPY 412,769,447,000 | JPY 5,953,832,000 | deficit JPY 406,815,615,000 |
| 2002 | JPY 409,626,727,000 | JPY 5,884,099,000 | deficit JPY 403,742,628,000 |
| 2001 | JPY 436,481,905,000 | JPY 5,434,086,000 | deficit JPY 431,047,819,000 |
| 2000 | JPY 379,915,167,000 | JPY 5,604,353,000 | deficit JPY 374,310,814,000 |
| 1999 | JPY 340,083,625,000 | JPY 5,110,196,000 | deficit JPY 334,973,429,000 |
| 1998 | JPY 338,066,063,000 | JPY 4,743,225,000 | deficit JPY 333,322,838,000 |
| 1997 | JPY 369,582,769,000 | JPY 4,991,715,000 | deficit JPY 364,591,054,000 |
| 1996 | JPY 384,265,664,000 | JPY 5,279,594,000 | deficit JPY 378,986,070,000 |
| 1995 | JPY 331,140,876,000 | JPY 5,107,400,000 | deficit JPY 326,033,476,000 |
| 1994 | JPY 305,674,528,000 | JPY 5,956,963,000 | deficit JPY 299,717,565,000 |
| 1993 | JPY 286,203,783,000 | JPY 7,612,954,000 | deficit JPY 278,590,829,000 |
| 1992 | JPY 314,597,504,000 | JPY 9,226,829,000 | deficit JPY 305,370,675,000 |
| 1991 | JPY 310,444,066,000 | JPY 9,952,349,000 | deficit JPY 300,491,717,000 |
| 1990 | JPY 329,907,597,000 | JPY 10,310,889,000 | deficit JPY 319,596,708,000 |
| 1989 | JPY 290,955,963,000 | JPY 9,976,929,000 | deficit JPY 280,979,034,000 |
| 1988 | JPY 175,377,379,000 | JPY 9,388,368,000 | deficit JPY 165,989,011,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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