Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal. (44)
Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal. (statistical code 44): imports in August 2026 were JPY 128,503,127,000 (+1.8% year on year). Main origins: Viet Nam (24.1%), People's Republic of China (11.9%), Indonesia (11.0%), Philippines (10.4%), Canada (7.8%). Figures for August 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 4,583,941,000, a trade deficit of JPY 123,919,186,000. (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 128,503,127,000 | — | — | +1.8% |
| 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% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 128,562,499,000 | — | — | +8.6% |
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 2022)
Imports in 2022 were JPY 1,752,094,924,000; in 2025, JPY 1,491,085,863,000, about 85% of the 2022 level.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 1,044,907,475,000 | JPY 42,128,835,000 | deficit JPY 1,002,778,640,000 |
| 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 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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