Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles. (85)
Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles. (statistical code 85): exports in September 2026 were JPY 1,870,335,027,000 (+32.1% year on year). Main destinations: People's Republic of China (17.3%), Taiwan (15.9%), United States of America (13.5%), Singapore (9.8%), Hong Kong (9.3%). Figures for September 2026 are revised.
Imports in the same month were JPY 1,996,432,691,000, a trade deficit of JPY 126,097,664,000. (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 1,870,335,027,000 | — | — | +32.1% |
| August 2026 | revised | JPY 1,739,718,044,000 | — | — | +33.6% |
| July 2026 | revised | JPY 1,835,141,904,000 | — | — | +31.4% |
| June 2026 | revised | JPY 1,617,321,005,000 | — | — | +32.6% |
| May 2026 | revised | JPY 1,514,016,002,000 | — | — | +35.4% |
| April 2026 | revised | JPY 1,699,870,999,000 | — | — | +29.6% |
| March 2026 | revised | JPY 1,630,058,892,000 | — | — | +23.1% |
| February 2026 | revised | JPY 1,382,775,270,000 | — | — | +11.6% |
| January 2026 | revised | JPY 1,341,768,344,000 | — | — | +27.3% |
| December 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,546,471,445,000 | — | — | +13.0% |
| November 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,363,288,889,000 | — | — | +7.8% |
| October 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,430,925,022,000 | — | — | +7.5% |
| September 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,415,838,410,000 | — | — | +7.2% |
| August 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,302,264,231,000 | — | — | +0.3% |
| July 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,396,501,684,000 | — | — | +0.7% |
| June 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,219,327,523,000 | — | — | -3.8% |
| May 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,117,936,915,000 | — | — | -3.8% |
| April 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,311,956,373,000 | — | — | +7.2% |
| March 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,324,321,702,000 | — | — | +0.7% |
| February 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,239,364,330,000 | — | — | +10.0% |
| January 2025 | revised (second) | JPY 1,054,089,492,000 | — | — | +1.1% |
| December 2024 | final | JPY 1,368,991,623,000 | — | — | +2.7% |
| November 2024 | final | JPY 1,265,019,921,000 | — | — | -0.7% |
| October 2024 | final | JPY 1,330,898,410,000 | — | — | -1.5% |
Subcategories
- Electric motors and generators(excluding generating sets)
- Electric generating sets and rotary converters
- 8503
- Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors
- Electro-magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation; electro-magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads
- Primary cells and primary batteries
- Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square)
- Vacuum cleaners
- Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08
- Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor
- Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines
- Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 85.39), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles
- Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 85.12
- Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss
- Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets
- Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 85.45
- Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28
- Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets
- Sound recording or reproducing apparatus
- Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner
- Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.19 or 85.21
- Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, "smart cards" and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, but excluding products of Chapter 37
- Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens.
- Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders
- Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus
- Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock
- Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus
- Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.24 to 85.28
- Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 86.08)
- Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 85.12 or 85.30
- Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)
- Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors
- 8534
- Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs and other connectors, junction boxes) , for a voltage exceeding 1,000 volts
- Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables
- Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 85.35 or 85.36, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 85.17
- Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 85.35, 85.36 or 85.37
- Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps; light-emitting diode (LED) light sources
- Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes)
- Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers); photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED), whether or not assembled with other light-emitting diodes (LED); mounted piezo-electric crystals
- Electronic integrated circuits
- Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter
- Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors
- Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes
- Electrical insulators of any material
- Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded sockets) incorporated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 85.46; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material
- 8548
- Electrical and electronic waste and scrap
- 85XX
Long-term trend (from 1988)
Exports in 1988 were JPY 7,740,796,081,000; in 2025, JPY 15,722,286,016,000, about 2.0 times as much.
| Year | Imports | Exports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | JPY 15,831,396,181,000 | JPY 14,631,005,487,000 | deficit JPY 1,200,390,694,000 |
| 2025 | JPY 17,038,973,590,000 | JPY 15,722,286,016,000 | deficit JPY 1,316,687,574,000 |
| 2024 | JPY 16,013,744,089,000 | JPY 15,106,556,165,000 | deficit JPY 907,187,924,000 |
| 2023 | JPY 16,177,620,892,000 | JPY 14,314,593,997,000 | deficit JPY 1,863,026,895,000 |
| 2022 | JPY 15,814,814,240,000 | JPY 14,903,953,280,000 | deficit JPY 910,860,960,000 |
| 2021 | JPY 12,452,968,217,000 | JPY 13,052,357,303,000 | surplus JPY 599,389,086,000 |
| 2020 | JPY 10,326,178,365,000 | JPY 11,016,836,421,000 | surplus JPY 690,658,056,000 |
| 2019 | JPY 10,770,593,103,000 | JPY 11,230,195,440,000 | surplus JPY 459,602,337,000 |
| 2018 | JPY 11,176,516,182,000 | JPY 12,076,523,895,000 | surplus JPY 900,007,713,000 |
| 2017 | JPY 10,962,510,422,000 | JPY 11,836,505,560,000 | surplus JPY 873,995,138,000 |
| 2016 | JPY 9,767,126,179,000 | JPY 10,658,444,794,000 | surplus JPY 891,318,615,000 |
| 2015 | JPY 10,920,622,851,000 | JPY 11,569,074,839,000 | surplus JPY 648,451,988,000 |
| 2014 | JPY 10,508,381,124,000 | JPY 11,019,300,435,000 | surplus JPY 510,919,311,000 |
| 2013 | JPY 9,442,700,393,000 | JPY 10,565,689,630,000 | surplus JPY 1,122,989,237,000 |
| 2012 | JPY 7,729,078,862,000 | JPY 10,048,693,720,000 | surplus JPY 2,319,614,858,000 |
| 2011 | JPY 7,363,537,285,000 | JPY 10,314,605,172,000 | surplus JPY 2,951,067,887,000 |
| 2010 | JPY 7,566,136,805,000 | JPY 11,504,584,409,000 | surplus JPY 3,938,447,604,000 |
| 2009 | JPY 6,054,827,054,000 | JPY 10,018,374,844,000 | surplus JPY 3,963,547,790,000 |
| 2008 | JPY 8,044,685,349,000 | JPY 14,368,176,912,000 | surplus JPY 6,323,491,563,000 |
| 2007 | JPY 8,660,366,004,000 | JPY 15,861,111,781,000 | surplus JPY 7,200,745,777,000 |
| 2006 | JPY 7,877,262,566,000 | JPY 14,897,090,192,000 | surplus JPY 7,019,827,626,000 |
| 2005 | JPY 6,782,557,961,000 | JPY 13,493,713,915,000 | surplus JPY 6,711,155,954,000 |
| 2004 | JPY 6,248,002,572,000 | JPY 13,305,907,352,000 | surplus JPY 7,057,904,780,000 |
| 2003 | JPY 5,557,731,348,000 | JPY 12,046,997,836,000 | surplus JPY 6,489,266,488,000 |
| 2002 | JPY 5,302,934,869,000 | JPY 11,228,008,796,000 | surplus JPY 5,925,073,927,000 |
| 2001 | JPY 5,417,691,976,000 | JPY 10,976,789,884,000 | surplus JPY 5,559,097,908,000 |
| 2000 | JPY 5,417,850,457,000 | JPY 12,960,843,413,000 | surplus JPY 7,542,992,956,000 |
| 1999 | JPY 4,214,182,224,000 | JPY 11,058,300,725,000 | surplus JPY 6,844,118,501,000 |
| 1998 | JPY 4,110,823,763,000 | JPY 11,235,512,587,000 | surplus JPY 7,124,688,824,000 |
| 1997 | JPY 4,303,677,344,000 | JPY 11,444,338,938,000 | surplus JPY 7,140,661,594,000 |
| 1996 | JPY 3,962,957,678,000 | JPY 10,360,538,742,000 | surplus JPY 6,397,581,064,000 |
| 1995 | JPY 3,043,613,614,000 | JPY 10,174,560,203,000 | surplus JPY 7,130,946,589,000 |
| 1994 | JPY 2,190,754,267,000 | JPY 9,536,297,944,000 | surplus JPY 7,345,543,677,000 |
| 1993 | JPY 1,737,493,116,000 | JPY 9,038,946,077,000 | surplus JPY 7,301,452,961,000 |
| 1992 | JPY 1,620,949,502,000 | JPY 9,469,368,685,000 | surplus JPY 7,848,419,183,000 |
| 1991 | JPY 1,704,641,673,000 | JPY 9,576,792,711,000 | surplus JPY 7,872,151,038,000 |
| 1990 | JPY 1,564,624,316,000 | JPY 9,218,085,433,000 | surplus JPY 7,653,461,117,000 |
| 1989 | JPY 1,329,629,214,000 | JPY 8,550,769,763,000 | surplus JPY 7,221,140,549,000 |
| 1988 | JPY 984,921,112,000 | JPY 7,740,796,081,000 | surplus JPY 6,755,874,969,000 |
Some goods moved between chapters with the HS revisions of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022.
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