Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal. (44)
Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal. (statistical code 44): imports in September 2026 were JPY 128,159,208,000 (+4.5% year on year). Main origins: Viet Nam (22.5%), People's Republic of China (12.9%), Philippines (10.6%), Indonesia (9.5%), United States of America (9.2%). Figures for September 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 6,097,213,000, a trade deficit of JPY 122,061,995,000. (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 128,159,208,000 | — | — | +4.5% |
| August 2026 | revised | JPY 128,631,870,000 | — | — | +1.9% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 142,209,688,000 | — | — | +10.8% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 139,703,592,000 | — | — | +8.3% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 119,695,131,000 | — | — | -4.8% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 131,259,368,000 | — | — | +3.9% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 123,375,403,000 | — | — | +2.7% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 121,414,644,000 | — | — | +5.1% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 138,746,522,000 | — | — | +10.7% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 132,079,221,000 | — | — | +7.2% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 110,595,740,000 | — | — | -7.3% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 129,339,042,000 | — | — | +5.6% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 122,665,293,000 | — | — | -4.6% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 126,201,493,000 | — | — | +9.2% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 128,301,214,000 | — | — | -10.2% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 128,939,013,000 | — | — | +8.1% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 125,705,852,000 | — | — | +2.7% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 126,277,069,000 | — | — | +1.5% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 120,132,739,000 | — | — | +0.9% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 115,472,503,000 | — | — | +4.6% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 125,376,684,000 | — | — | +8.9% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 123,174,102,000 | — | — | +9.2% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 119,273,487,000 | — | — | +0.3% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 122,512,621,000 | — | — | +3.7% |
Subcategories
- Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms.
- Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated.
- Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
- Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking -sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the like; chipwood and the like.
- 4405
- Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood.
- Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm.
- Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm.
- Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed.
- Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (for example, waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances.
- Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances.
- Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood.
- 4413
- Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects
- Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood.
- 4416
- 4417
- Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels , shingles and shakes.
- Tableware and kitchenware, of wood.
- Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles, of wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling in Chapter 94.
- Other articles of wood.
- 44XX
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Imports in 1988 were JPY 1,176,439,427,000; in 2025, JPY 1,491,085,863,000, about 1.3 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | JPY 1,173,195,426,000 | JPY 48,226,048,000 | deficit JPY 1,124,969,378,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 1,491,085,863,000 | JPY 59,581,857,000 | deficit JPY 1,431,504,006,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 1,462,756,937,000 | JPY 53,753,512,000 | deficit JPY 1,409,003,425,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 1,402,278,335,000 | JPY 50,464,260,000 | deficit JPY 1,351,814,075,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 1,752,094,924,000 | JPY 52,692,563,000 | deficit JPY 1,699,402,361,000 |
| 2021 | JPY 1,230,340,102,000 | JPY 47,470,667,000 | deficit JPY 1,182,869,435,000 |
| 2020 | JPY 944,048,699,000 | JPY 35,700,541,000 | deficit JPY 908,348,158,000 |
| 2019 | Not available (source gap) | JPY 34,570,046,000 | Not available (source gap) |
| 2018 | Not available (source gap) | JPY 35,062,043,000 | Not available (source gap) |
| 2017 | JPY 1,151,983,969,000 | JPY 32,647,025,000 | deficit JPY 1,119,336,944,000 |
| 2016 | JPY 1,104,083,160,000 | JPY 23,830,966,000 | deficit JPY 1,080,252,194,000 |
| 2015 | JPY 1,216,260,859,000 | JPY 22,923,948,000 | deficit JPY 1,193,336,911,000 |
| 2014 | JPY 1,235,886,650,000 | JPY 17,834,311,000 | deficit JPY 1,218,052,339,000 |
| 2013 | JPY 1,216,003,695,000 | JPY 12,306,586,000 | deficit JPY 1,203,697,109,000 |
| 2012 | JPY 954,851,847,000 | JPY 9,343,996,000 | deficit JPY 945,507,851,000 |
| 2011 | JPY 999,677,332,000 | JPY 9,730,625,000 | deficit JPY 989,946,707,000 |
| 2010 | JPY 915,976,755,000 | JPY 10,200,936,000 | deficit JPY 905,775,819,000 |
| 2009 | JPY 811,928,372,000 | JPY 10,444,957,000 | deficit JPY 801,483,415,000 |
| 2008 | JPY 1,157,869,716,000 | JPY 11,950,185,000 | deficit JPY 1,145,919,531,000 |
| 2007 | JPY 1,394,447,730,000 | JPY 11,470,486,000 | deficit JPY 1,382,977,244,000 |
| 2006 | JPY 1,377,664,271,000 | JPY 9,604,754,000 | deficit JPY 1,368,059,517,000 |
| 2005 | JPY 1,201,038,247,000 | JPY 10,473,230,000 | deficit JPY 1,190,565,017,000 |
| 2004 | JPY 1,251,829,158,000 | JPY 9,719,599,000 | deficit JPY 1,242,109,559,000 |
| 2003 | JPY 1,147,782,251,000 | JPY 9,565,479,000 | deficit JPY 1,138,216,772,000 |
| 2002 | JPY 1,153,895,534,000 | JPY 8,238,723,000 | deficit JPY 1,145,656,811,000 |
| 2001 | JPY 1,196,305,080,000 | JPY 7,285,072,000 | deficit JPY 1,189,020,008,000 |
| 2000 | JPY 1,214,825,765,000 | JPY 8,131,418,000 | deficit JPY 1,206,694,347,000 |
| 1999 | JPY 1,230,314,646,000 | JPY 9,171,137,000 | deficit JPY 1,221,143,509,000 |
| 1998 | JPY 1,198,495,429,000 | JPY 8,800,845,000 | deficit JPY 1,189,694,584,000 |
| 1997 | JPY 1,824,601,155,000 | JPY 11,787,014,000 | deficit JPY 1,812,814,141,000 |
| 1996 | JPY 1,735,922,993,000 | JPY 12,878,547,000 | deficit JPY 1,723,044,446,000 |
| 1995 | JPY 1,483,544,770,000 | JPY 9,967,805,000 | deficit JPY 1,473,576,965,000 |
| 1994 | JPY 1,485,128,967,000 | JPY 10,178,633,000 | deficit JPY 1,474,950,334,000 |
| 1993 | JPY 1,621,194,397,000 | JPY 10,337,681,000 | deficit JPY 1,610,856,716,000 |
| 1992 | JPY 1,381,082,401,000 | JPY 12,283,477,000 | deficit JPY 1,368,798,924,000 |
| 1991 | JPY 1,409,099,849,000 | JPY 14,877,867,000 | deficit JPY 1,394,221,982,000 |
| 1990 | JPY 1,519,697,830,000 | JPY 15,363,659,000 | deficit JPY 1,504,334,171,000 |
| 1989 | JPY 1,528,386,462,000 | JPY 15,111,023,000 | deficit JPY 1,513,275,439,000 |
| 1988 | JPY 1,176,439,427,000 | JPY 13,209,623,000 | deficit JPY 1,163,229,804,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
The e-Stat table 'Final Trade Statistics by Commodity and Country (Imports), 2016–2020' (Ministry of Finance Trade Statistics of Japan) lacks data for some commodities from April 2018 to December 2019, so values for this period are not shown. This is a problem in the source data; official annual totals from the Ministry of Finance differ.
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