Miscellaneous chemical products. (38)
Miscellaneous chemical products. (statistical code 38): exports in August 2026 were JPY 187,893,166,000 (+23.4% year on year). Main destinations: Taiwan (22.5%), People's Republic of China (20.4%), Republic of Korea (14.2%), United States of America (10.6%), India (3.8%). Figures for August 2026 are revised.
Imports in the same month were JPY 95,273,607,000, a trade surplus of JPY 92,619,559,000. (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 187,893,166,000 | — | — | +23.4% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 189,114,727,000 | — | — | +16.9% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 198,529,661,000 | — | — | +11.9% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 181,743,189,000 | — | — | +4.7% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 194,173,580,000 | — | — | +6.9% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 197,666,188,000 | — | — | -1.0% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 154,768,470,000 | — | — | -9.6% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 166,124,202,000 | — | — | +9.4% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 195,334,015,000 | — | — | +1.5% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 174,321,982,000 | — | — | +2.7% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 165,661,918,000 | — | — | -5.9% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 174,087,569,000 | — | — | +0.2% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 152,281,624,000 | — | — | -9.7% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 161,779,305,000 | — | — | -9.1% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 177,470,742,000 | — | — | +4.1% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 173,650,137,000 | — | — | +11.2% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 181,651,101,000 | — | — | +12.1% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 199,673,568,000 | — | — | +21.1% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 171,140,931,000 | — | — | +16.0% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 151,821,404,000 | — | — | +5.2% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 192,431,432,000 | — | — | +18.6% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 169,789,412,000 | — | — | +13.3% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 176,114,020,000 | — | — | +13.4% |
| September 2024 | final | JPY 173,674,336,000 | — | — | +12.5% |
Subcategories
- Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures.
- Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black.
- 3803
- 3804
- Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine and other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing α-terpineol as the main constituent.
- Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums.
- 3807
- Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers).
- Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included.
- Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods.
- Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils.
- Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics.
- 3813
- 3814
- Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included.
- 3816
- 3817
- 3818
- 3819
- 3820
- 3821
- Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 30.06; certified reference materials.
- Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols.
- Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included.
- Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in Note 6 to this Chapter.
- 3826
- Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included.
- 38XX
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Exports in 1988 were JPY 183,363,649,000; in 2025, JPY 2,078,874,296,000, about 11.3 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | JPY 793,071,956,000 | JPY 1,470,013,183,000 | surplus JPY 676,941,227,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 1,064,861,811,000 | JPY 2,078,874,296,000 | surplus JPY 1,014,012,485,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 1,035,974,785,000 | JPY 2,004,037,959,000 | surplus JPY 968,063,174,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 1,005,340,223,000 | JPY 1,760,811,387,000 | surplus JPY 755,471,164,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 1,316,766,575,000 | JPY 1,874,290,539,000 | surplus JPY 557,523,964,000 |
| 2021 | — | JPY 1,604,422,381,000 | — |
| 2020 | — | JPY 1,288,733,530,000 | — |
| 2019 | — | JPY 1,295,954,369,000 | — |
| 2018 | — | JPY 1,311,432,343,000 | — |
| 2017 | — | JPY 1,156,325,333,000 | — |
| 2016 | — | JPY 1,035,749,435,000 | — |
| 2015 | — | JPY 1,107,680,445,000 | — |
| 2014 | — | JPY 1,063,504,028,000 | — |
| 2013 | — | JPY 986,754,945,000 | — |
| 2012 | — | JPY 951,904,568,000 | — |
| 2011 | — | JPY 1,052,514,614,000 | — |
| 2010 | — | JPY 1,066,932,934,000 | — |
| 2009 | — | JPY 804,322,151,000 | — |
| 2008 | — | JPY 1,212,498,083,000 | — |
| 2007 | — | JPY 1,319,645,866,000 | — |
| 2006 | — | JPY 1,119,963,254,000 | — |
| 2005 | — | JPY 883,515,220,000 | — |
| 2004 | — | JPY 742,898,078,000 | — |
| 2003 | — | JPY 619,958,593,000 | — |
| 2002 | — | JPY 590,935,662,000 | — |
| 2001 | — | JPY 515,976,269,000 | — |
| 2000 | — | JPY 547,986,245,000 | — |
| 1999 | — | JPY 456,507,649,000 | — |
| 1998 | — | JPY 443,660,020,000 | — |
| 1997 | — | JPY 468,423,738,000 | — |
| 1996 | — | JPY 379,151,819,000 | — |
| 1995 | — | JPY 318,647,286,000 | — |
| 1994 | — | JPY 283,240,264,000 | — |
| 1993 | — | JPY 242,875,981,000 | — |
| 1992 | — | JPY 242,415,138,000 | — |
| 1991 | — | JPY 241,362,518,000 | — |
| 1990 | — | JPY 231,378,279,000 | — |
| 1989 | — | JPY 200,435,354,000 | — |
| 1988 | — | JPY 183,363,649,000 | — |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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