Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. (19)
Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. (statistical code 19): exports in August 2026 were JPY 9,074,546,000 (+2.4% year on year), quantity 10,696,120 KG, unit price JPY 848 per KG. Main destinations: United States of America (18.4%), Hong Kong (18.1%), Taiwan (16.4%), Republic of Korea (7.1%), Viet Nam (6.7%). Figures for August 2026 are revised.
Imports in the same month were JPY 21,104,003,000, a trade deficit of JPY 12,029,457,000. (imports: preliminary; exports: revised)
Import statistics for this code
Monthly statistics
| Month | Status | Export value | Quantity | Unit price | Year-on-year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | revised | JPY 9,074,546,000 | 10,696,120 | JPY 848 | +2.4% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 9,878,129,000 | 11,624,653 | JPY 850 | +5.4% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 10,048,195,000 | 11,671,396 | JPY 861 | +5.8% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 9,434,238,000 | 11,258,200 | JPY 838 | +6.9% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 9,153,166,000 | 11,312,445 | JPY 809 | -2.2% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 9,995,661,000 | 11,857,471 | JPY 843 | +1.9% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 8,959,438,000 | 10,148,603 | JPY 883 | -3.2% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 8,375,040,000 | 9,453,809 | JPY 886 | +24.8% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 11,709,060,000 | 12,471,143 | JPY 939 | -3.3% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 10,954,627,000 | 11,896,992 | JPY 921 | -1.5% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 10,968,082,000 | 12,119,416 | JPY 905 | -0.2% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 10,141,500,000 | 11,534,756 | JPY 879 | -2.8% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 8,861,723,000 | 10,488,154 | JPY 845 | +5.1% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 9,374,242,000 | 11,054,667 | JPY 848 | -1.3% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 9,493,897,000 | 11,525,539 | JPY 824 | +0.0% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 8,822,874,000 | 10,694,431 | JPY 825 | -1.4% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 9,360,528,000 | 11,131,037 | JPY 841 | +1.9% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 9,812,509,000 | 11,891,321 | JPY 825 | -4.4% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 9,254,175,000 | 10,738,847 | JPY 862 | +3.7% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 6,713,134,000 | 7,866,151 | JPY 853 | -3.7% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 12,103,433,000 | 13,115,073 | JPY 923 | +13.6% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 11,122,642,000 | 11,873,814 | JPY 937 | +10.5% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 10,986,429,000 | 12,241,829 | JPY 897 | +9.7% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 10,429,530,000 | 12,208,408 | JPY 854 | +4.7% |
Subcategories
- Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included
- Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared
- 1903
- Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included
- Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Exports in 1988 were JPY 16,182,007,000; in 2025, JPY 115,466,351,000, about 7.1 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 168,929,986,000 | JPY 74,918,413,000 | deficit JPY 94,011,573,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 242,689,453,000 | JPY 115,466,351,000 | deficit JPY 127,223,102,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 227,678,890,000 | JPY 116,352,356,000 | deficit JPY 111,326,534,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 199,555,628,000 | JPY 107,845,045,000 | deficit JPY 91,710,583,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 198,558,049,000 | JPY 109,225,775,000 | deficit JPY 89,332,274,000 |
| 2021 | — | JPY 98,382,073,000 | — |
| 2020 | — | JPY 85,754,182,000 | — |
| 2019 | — | JPY 78,297,235,000 | — |
| 2018 | — | JPY 74,769,597,000 | — |
| 2017 | — | JPY 67,834,418,000 | — |
| 2016 | — | JPY 70,202,053,000 | — |
| 2015 | — | JPY 63,419,366,000 | — |
| 2014 | — | JPY 46,769,727,000 | — |
| 2013 | — | JPY 36,186,477,000 | — |
| 2012 | — | JPY 28,544,574,000 | — |
| 2011 | — | JPY 29,429,103,000 | — |
| 2010 | — | JPY 39,943,423,000 | — |
| 2009 | — | JPY 36,132,526,000 | — |
| 2008 | — | JPY 33,911,894,000 | — |
| 2007 | — | JPY 30,362,770,000 | — |
| 2006 | — | JPY 25,587,654,000 | — |
| 2005 | — | JPY 22,787,407,000 | — |
| 2004 | — | JPY 20,476,269,000 | — |
| 2003 | — | JPY 19,500,967,000 | — |
| 2002 | — | JPY 19,908,033,000 | — |
| 2001 | — | JPY 19,280,551,000 | — |
| 2000 | — | JPY 18,773,097,000 | — |
| 1999 | — | JPY 19,012,579,000 | — |
| 1998 | — | JPY 18,800,557,000 | — |
| 1997 | — | JPY 18,182,151,000 | — |
| 1996 | — | JPY 15,751,335,000 | — |
| 1995 | — | JPY 15,829,253,000 | — |
| 1994 | — | JPY 21,920,347,000 | — |
| 1993 | — | JPY 27,292,645,000 | — |
| 1992 | — | JPY 26,022,078,000 | — |
| 1991 | — | JPY 24,290,113,000 | — |
| 1990 | — | JPY 25,457,591,000 | — |
| 1989 | — | JPY 21,301,191,000 | — |
| 1988 | — | JPY 16,182,007,000 | — |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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