Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal. (44)
Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal. (statistical code 44): exports in September 2026 were JPY 6,097,213,000 (+31.5% year on year). Main destinations: People's Republic of China (49.0%), Philippines (28.1%), United States of America (9.0%), Republic of Korea (3.9%), Taiwan (2.0%). Figures for September 2026 are revised.
Imports in the same month were JPY 128,159,208,000, a trade deficit of JPY 122,061,995,000. (imports: preliminary; exports: revised)
Import statistics for this code
Monthly statistics
| Month | Status | Export value | Quantity | Unit price | Year-on-year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | revised | JPY 6,097,213,000 | — | — | +31.5% |
| August 2026 | revised | JPY 4,583,941,000 | — | — | +25.5% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 5,519,417,000 | — | — | +12.4% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 5,689,167,000 | — | — | -2.5% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 4,892,084,000 | — | — | -5.9% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 6,127,093,000 | — | — | +11.6% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 5,838,809,000 | — | — | +5.1% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 5,497,381,000 | — | — | +8.6% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 3,980,943,000 | — | — | +9.4% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 5,359,913,000 | — | — | -9.6% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 5,026,077,000 | — | — | +1.9% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 5,224,117,000 | — | — | +13.0% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 4,635,284,000 | — | — | +15.5% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 3,652,734,000 | — | — | -11.1% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 4,910,368,000 | — | — | +1.3% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 5,833,600,000 | — | — | +24.8% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 5,196,629,000 | — | — | +19.2% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 5,488,696,000 | — | — | +5.7% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 5,555,916,000 | — | — | +28.5% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 5,060,909,000 | — | — | +25.8% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 3,637,614,000 | — | — | +33.6% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 5,929,083,000 | — | — | +36.2% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 4,930,916,000 | — | — | +21.0% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 4,625,136,000 | — | — | +10.2% |
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
- 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.
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Exports in 1988 were JPY 13,209,623,000; in 2025, JPY 59,581,857,000, about 4.5 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | JPY 1,173,195,426,000 | JPY 48,226,048,000 | deficit JPY 1,124,969,378,000 |
| 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 |
| 2021 | JPY 1,230,340,102,000 | JPY 47,470,667,000 | deficit JPY 1,182,869,435,000 |
| 2020 | JPY 944,048,699,000 | JPY 35,700,541,000 | deficit JPY 908,348,158,000 |
| 2019 | Not available (source gap) | JPY 34,570,046,000 | Not available (source gap) |
| 2018 | Not available (source gap) | JPY 35,062,043,000 | Not available (source gap) |
| 2017 | JPY 1,151,983,969,000 | JPY 32,647,025,000 | deficit JPY 1,119,336,944,000 |
| 2016 | JPY 1,104,083,160,000 | JPY 23,830,966,000 | deficit JPY 1,080,252,194,000 |
| 2015 | JPY 1,216,260,859,000 | JPY 22,923,948,000 | deficit JPY 1,193,336,911,000 |
| 2014 | JPY 1,235,886,650,000 | JPY 17,834,311,000 | deficit JPY 1,218,052,339,000 |
| 2013 | JPY 1,216,003,695,000 | JPY 12,306,586,000 | deficit JPY 1,203,697,109,000 |
| 2012 | JPY 954,851,847,000 | JPY 9,343,996,000 | deficit JPY 945,507,851,000 |
| 2011 | JPY 999,677,332,000 | JPY 9,730,625,000 | deficit JPY 989,946,707,000 |
| 2010 | JPY 915,976,755,000 | JPY 10,200,936,000 | deficit JPY 905,775,819,000 |
| 2009 | JPY 811,928,372,000 | JPY 10,444,957,000 | deficit JPY 801,483,415,000 |
| 2008 | JPY 1,157,869,716,000 | JPY 11,950,185,000 | deficit JPY 1,145,919,531,000 |
| 2007 | JPY 1,394,447,730,000 | JPY 11,470,486,000 | deficit JPY 1,382,977,244,000 |
| 2006 | JPY 1,377,664,271,000 | JPY 9,604,754,000 | deficit JPY 1,368,059,517,000 |
| 2005 | JPY 1,201,038,247,000 | JPY 10,473,230,000 | deficit JPY 1,190,565,017,000 |
| 2004 | JPY 1,251,829,158,000 | JPY 9,719,599,000 | deficit JPY 1,242,109,559,000 |
| 2003 | JPY 1,147,782,251,000 | JPY 9,565,479,000 | deficit JPY 1,138,216,772,000 |
| 2002 | JPY 1,153,895,534,000 | JPY 8,238,723,000 | deficit JPY 1,145,656,811,000 |
| 2001 | JPY 1,196,305,080,000 | JPY 7,285,072,000 | deficit JPY 1,189,020,008,000 |
| 2000 | JPY 1,214,825,765,000 | JPY 8,131,418,000 | deficit JPY 1,206,694,347,000 |
| 1999 | JPY 1,230,314,646,000 | JPY 9,171,137,000 | deficit JPY 1,221,143,509,000 |
| 1998 | JPY 1,198,495,429,000 | JPY 8,800,845,000 | deficit JPY 1,189,694,584,000 |
| 1997 | JPY 1,824,601,155,000 | JPY 11,787,014,000 | deficit JPY 1,812,814,141,000 |
| 1996 | JPY 1,735,922,993,000 | JPY 12,878,547,000 | deficit JPY 1,723,044,446,000 |
| 1995 | JPY 1,483,544,770,000 | JPY 9,967,805,000 | deficit JPY 1,473,576,965,000 |
| 1994 | JPY 1,485,128,967,000 | JPY 10,178,633,000 | deficit JPY 1,474,950,334,000 |
| 1993 | JPY 1,621,194,397,000 | JPY 10,337,681,000 | deficit JPY 1,610,856,716,000 |
| 1992 | JPY 1,381,082,401,000 | JPY 12,283,477,000 | deficit JPY 1,368,798,924,000 |
| 1991 | JPY 1,409,099,849,000 | JPY 14,877,867,000 | deficit JPY 1,394,221,982,000 |
| 1990 | JPY 1,519,697,830,000 | JPY 15,363,659,000 | deficit JPY 1,504,334,171,000 |
| 1989 | JPY 1,528,386,462,000 | JPY 15,111,023,000 | deficit JPY 1,513,275,439,000 |
| 1988 | JPY 1,176,439,427,000 | JPY 13,209,623,000 | deficit JPY 1,163,229,804,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
The e-Stat table 'Final Trade Statistics by Commodity and Country (Imports), 2016–2020' (Ministry of Finance Trade Statistics of Japan) lacks data for some commodities from April 2018 to December 2019, so values for this period are not shown. This is a problem in the source data; official annual totals from the Ministry of Finance differ.
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