Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement. (25)
Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement. (statistical code 25): exports in August 2026 were JPY 10,221,395,000 (+33.1% year on year). Main destinations: People's Republic of China (27.6%), Australia (16.3%), Taiwan (13.2%), Singapore (9.7%), Republic of Korea (7.8%). Figures for August 2026 are revised.
Imports in the same month were JPY 20,869,075,000, a trade deficit of JPY 10,647,680,000. (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 10,221,395,000 | — | — | +33.1% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 10,712,840,000 | — | — | +28.5% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 10,698,280,000 | — | — | +45.4% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 12,539,357,000 | — | — | +27.5% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 12,190,662,000 | — | — | +40.2% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 11,362,891,000 | — | — | +28.7% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 10,122,213,000 | — | — | +33.3% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 9,476,224,000 | — | — | +16.6% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 10,187,462,000 | — | — | +26.6% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 8,909,983,000 | — | — | +24.9% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 9,316,135,000 | — | — | +24.7% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 8,341,534,000 | — | — | +11.3% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 7,680,867,000 | — | — | +6.8% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 8,339,113,000 | — | — | +2.9% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 7,357,964,000 | — | — | +5.5% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 9,832,960,000 | — | — | +20.2% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 8,695,955,000 | — | — | +10.4% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 8,830,877,000 | — | — | +5.7% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 7,594,621,000 | — | — | +6.5% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 8,128,412,000 | — | — | +34.1% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 8,047,217,000 | — | — | +18.0% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 7,135,012,000 | — | — | +2.8% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 7,472,486,000 | — | — | -1.7% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 7,492,977,000 | — | — | +8.6% |
Subcategories
- 2501
- 2502
- 2503
- Natural graphite
- Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of Chapter 26
- Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 2507
- Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 68.06), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths
- 2509
- Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk
- Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading 28.16
- 2512
- Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heat-treated:
- Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated
- Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; other magnesium oxide, whether or not pure
- Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders:
- 2521
- Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 28.25
- Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
- Mica, including splittings; mica waste
- Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc
- 2528
- Feldspar; leucite; nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar
- Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included
- 25XX
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Exports in 1988 were JPY 35,625,167,000; in 2025, JPY 103,215,883,000, about 2.9 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 153,888,843,000 | JPY 87,323,862,000 | deficit JPY 66,564,981,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 232,763,681,000 | JPY 103,215,883,000 | deficit JPY 129,547,798,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 237,284,174,000 | JPY 90,025,622,000 | deficit JPY 147,258,552,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 227,330,988,000 | JPY 83,030,920,000 | deficit JPY 144,300,068,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 252,827,237,000 | JPY 107,545,549,000 | deficit JPY 145,281,688,000 |
| 2021 | — | JPY 84,862,101,000 | — |
| 2020 | — | JPY 69,240,177,000 | — |
| 2019 | — | JPY 74,312,902,000 | — |
| 2018 | — | JPY 80,805,988,000 | — |
| 2017 | — | JPY 84,109,208,000 | — |
| 2016 | — | JPY 80,332,488,000 | — |
| 2015 | — | JPY 92,448,606,000 | — |
| 2014 | — | JPY 80,911,823,000 | — |
| 2013 | — | JPY 69,738,996,000 | — |
| 2012 | — | JPY 66,087,502,000 | — |
| 2011 | — | JPY 65,833,373,000 | — |
| 2010 | — | JPY 63,504,359,000 | — |
| 2009 | — | JPY 58,641,504,000 | — |
| 2008 | — | JPY 90,039,475,000 | — |
| 2007 | — | JPY 65,756,791,000 | — |
| 2006 | — | JPY 61,424,235,000 | — |
| 2005 | — | JPY 53,873,737,000 | — |
| 2004 | — | JPY 47,139,596,000 | — |
| 2003 | — | JPY 43,314,255,000 | — |
| 2002 | — | JPY 37,625,079,000 | — |
| 2001 | — | JPY 34,777,471,000 | — |
| 2000 | — | JPY 33,669,687,000 | — |
| 1999 | — | JPY 35,065,514,000 | — |
| 1998 | — | JPY 45,047,524,000 | — |
| 1997 | — | JPY 79,669,466,000 | — |
| 1996 | — | JPY 78,571,995,000 | — |
| 1995 | — | JPY 70,695,853,000 | — |
| 1994 | — | JPY 73,974,408,000 | — |
| 1993 | — | JPY 71,790,092,000 | — |
| 1992 | — | JPY 76,180,717,000 | — |
| 1991 | — | JPY 59,766,131,000 | — |
| 1990 | — | JPY 51,637,905,000 | — |
| 1989 | — | JPY 47,508,833,000 | — |
| 1988 | — | JPY 35,625,167,000 | — |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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