Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof. (90)
Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof. (statistical code 90): imports in September 2026 were JPY 393,072,635,000 (+4.6% year on year). Main origins: United States of America (22.0%), People's Republic of China (20.4%), Germany (8.5%), Ireland (5.7%), Thailand (3.9%). Figures for September 2026 are preliminary.
Exports in the same month were JPY 518,759,315,000, a trade surplus of JPY 125,686,680,000. (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 393,072,635,000 | — | — | +4.6% |
| August 2026 | revised | JPY 390,246,127,000 | — | — | +15.7% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 422,270,778,000 | — | — | +18.5% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 402,310,944,000 | — | — | +13.0% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 359,070,876,000 | — | — | +6.8% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 374,568,824,000 | — | — | +7.1% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 409,015,704,000 | — | — | +9.7% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 362,250,831,000 | — | — | +0.5% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 364,404,541,000 | — | — | -3.0% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 380,733,679,000 | — | — | +6.6% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 367,101,931,000 | — | — | +3.3% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 386,196,696,000 | — | — | +4.3% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 375,761,192,000 | — | — | +6.3% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 337,258,944,000 | — | — | +6.5% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 356,458,472,000 | — | — | -4.4% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 356,177,086,000 | — | — | +7.7% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 336,348,569,000 | — | — | -2.6% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 349,721,411,000 | — | — | +6.2% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 372,985,034,000 | — | — | +11.9% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 360,455,221,000 | — | — | +5.2% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 375,505,549,000 | — | — | +16.1% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 357,084,339,000 | — | — | +1.0% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 355,473,530,000 | — | — | -2.8% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 370,296,628,000 | — | — | -1.4% |
Subcategories
- Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 85.44; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
- Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts of or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
- Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts thereof
- Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other
- Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy
- Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading 85.39
- Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus
- Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
- Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens
- Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection
- Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus
- Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter
- Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances
- Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders
- 9016
- Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter
- Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
- Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus
- 9020
- Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability
- Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta, gamma or other ionising radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
- 9023
- Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics)
- Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments
- Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading 90.14, 90.15, 90.28 or 90.32
- Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes
- Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
- Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading 90.14 or 90.15; stroboscopes
- Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations
- Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors
- Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
- 9033
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Imports in 1988 were JPY 449,061,382,000; in 2025, JPY 4,354,703,784,000, about 9.7 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | JPY 3,477,211,260,000 | JPY 4,628,668,008,000 | surplus JPY 1,151,456,748,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 4,354,703,784,000 | JPY 5,458,458,374,000 | surplus JPY 1,103,754,590,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 4,130,839,821,000 | JPY 5,456,195,304,000 | surplus JPY 1,325,355,483,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 4,038,295,395,000 | JPY 5,080,451,846,000 | surplus JPY 1,042,156,451,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 3,675,007,454,000 | JPY 5,099,849,327,000 | surplus JPY 1,424,841,873,000 |
| 2021 | JPY 3,103,229,033,000 | JPY 4,726,284,225,000 | surplus JPY 1,623,055,192,000 |
| 2020 | JPY 2,769,533,321,000 | JPY 3,993,068,194,000 | surplus JPY 1,223,534,873,000 |
| 2019 | JPY 3,081,957,074,000 | JPY 4,259,166,269,000 | surplus JPY 1,177,209,195,000 |
| 2018 | JPY 3,052,319,425,000 | JPY 4,559,303,146,000 | surplus JPY 1,506,983,721,000 |
| 2017 | JPY 2,863,694,824,000 | JPY 4,465,751,486,000 | surplus JPY 1,602,056,662,000 |
| 2016 | JPY 2,629,659,151,000 | JPY 3,893,886,396,000 | surplus JPY 1,264,227,245,000 |
| 2015 | JPY 2,816,082,648,000 | JPY 4,324,987,178,000 | surplus JPY 1,508,904,530,000 |
| 2014 | JPY 2,625,794,175,000 | JPY 4,275,057,989,000 | surplus JPY 1,649,263,814,000 |
| 2013 | JPY 2,395,198,330,000 | JPY 3,912,014,485,000 | surplus JPY 1,516,816,155,000 |
| 2012 | JPY 2,123,555,463,000 | JPY 3,643,013,779,000 | surplus JPY 1,519,458,316,000 |
| 2011 | JPY 1,987,247,018,000 | JPY 3,628,109,395,000 | surplus JPY 1,640,862,377,000 |
| 2010 | JPY 1,969,921,111,000 | JPY 3,468,047,470,000 | surplus JPY 1,498,126,359,000 |
| 2009 | JPY 1,694,547,940,000 | JPY 2,671,432,538,000 | surplus JPY 976,884,598,000 |
| 2008 | JPY 2,230,885,992,000 | JPY 3,558,077,471,000 | surplus JPY 1,327,191,479,000 |
| 2007 | JPY 2,466,386,418,000 | JPY 3,834,194,354,000 | surplus JPY 1,367,807,936,000 |
| 2006 | JPY 2,670,217,372,000 | JPY 4,124,408,023,000 | surplus JPY 1,454,190,651,000 |
| 2005 | JPY 2,182,452,172,000 | JPY 3,963,621,223,000 | surplus JPY 1,781,169,051,000 |
| 2004 | JPY 1,927,070,096,000 | JPY 3,936,147,259,000 | surplus JPY 2,009,077,163,000 |
| 2003 | JPY 1,729,806,071,000 | JPY 3,186,883,194,000 | surplus JPY 1,457,077,123,000 |
| 2002 | JPY 1,650,714,432,000 | JPY 2,887,770,324,000 | surplus JPY 1,237,055,892,000 |
| 2001 | JPY 1,664,048,123,000 | JPY 3,363,308,384,000 | surplus JPY 1,699,260,261,000 |
| 2000 | JPY 1,486,853,173,000 | JPY 3,625,045,455,000 | surplus JPY 2,138,192,282,000 |
| 1999 | JPY 1,324,881,720,000 | JPY 3,065,690,064,000 | surplus JPY 1,740,808,344,000 |
| 1998 | JPY 1,368,637,070,000 | JPY 3,013,331,107,000 | surplus JPY 1,644,694,037,000 |
| 1997 | JPY 1,355,649,434,000 | JPY 3,149,318,239,000 | surplus JPY 1,793,668,805,000 |
| 1996 | JPY 1,176,448,848,000 | JPY 2,707,367,142,000 | surplus JPY 1,530,918,294,000 |
| 1995 | JPY 845,065,049,000 | JPY 2,433,629,022,000 | surplus JPY 1,588,563,973,000 |
| 1994 | JPY 721,945,025,000 | JPY 2,262,951,823,000 | surplus JPY 1,541,006,798,000 |
| 1993 | JPY 635,023,412,000 | JPY 2,193,185,444,000 | surplus JPY 1,558,162,032,000 |
| 1992 | JPY 643,272,633,000 | JPY 2,326,835,105,000 | surplus JPY 1,683,562,472,000 |
| 1991 | JPY 672,748,402,000 | JPY 2,382,257,847,000 | surplus JPY 1,709,509,445,000 |
| 1990 | JPY 658,441,216,000 | JPY 2,277,236,418,000 | surplus JPY 1,618,795,202,000 |
| 1989 | JPY 562,159,132,000 | JPY 2,095,594,754,000 | surplus JPY 1,533,435,622,000 |
| 1988 | JPY 449,061,382,000 | JPY 1,820,592,001,000 | surplus JPY 1,371,530,619,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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