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 August 2026 were JPY 86,063,339,000 (+14.4% year on year), quantity 13,861,659 KG, unit price JPY 6,209 per KG. Main origins: People's Republic of China (36.4%), Italy (22.1%), France (16.7%), Viet Nam (8.9%), Spain (3.4%). Figures for August 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 1,943,864,000, a trade deficit of JPY 84,119,475,000. (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 86,063,339,000 | 13,861,659 | JPY 6,209 | +14.4% |
| 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% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 72,218,740,000 | 13,502,592 | JPY 5,348 | +8.5% |
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 2022)
Imports in 2022 were JPY 770,057,397,000; in 2025, JPY 1,002,536,573,000, about 1.3 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 704,531,296,000 | JPY 14,143,115,000 | deficit JPY 690,388,181,000 |
| 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 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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