Japan - Exports of Goods

Japan: Exports of Goods

Mnemonic	TREG.IJPN
Unit	Mil. JPY, SA
Adjustments	Seasonally Adjusted
	Monthly	0.07 %
Data	Dec 2020	5,980,420
	Nov 2020	5,984,697

Series Information

Source	Customs and Tariff Bureau
Release	Foreign Trade
Frequency	Monthly
Start Date	7/31/1995
End Date	12/31/2020

Japan: Trade

	Reference	Last	Previous	Units	Frequency
Balance of Goods	Dec 2020	477,135	549,478	Mil. JPY, SA	Monthly
Exports of Goods	Dec 2020	5,980,420	5,984,697	Mil. JPY, SA	Monthly
Imports of Goods	Dec 2020	5,503,285	5,435,219	Mil. JPY, SA	Monthly
Current Account Balance	Nov 2020	23,393	19,832	100 Mil. JPY, SA	Monthly
Exports of Goods and Services	2020 Q3	80,061	72,928	Bil. JPY, SAAR	Quarterly
Imports of Goods and Services	2020 Q3	78,742	84,188	Bil. JPY, SAAR	Quarterly
Net Exports	2020 Q3	1,318	-11,259	Bil. JPY, SAAR	Quarterly
Real Exports of Goods and Services	2020 Q3	87,165	81,449	Bil. Ch. 2015 JPY, SAAR	Quarterly
Real Imports of Goods and Services	2020 Q3	90,126	98,822	Bil. Ch. 2015 JPY, SAAR	Quarterly
Real Net Exports	2020 Q3	-2,961	-17,372	Bil. Ch. 2015 JPY, SAAR	Quarterly

Release Information

Description

The Foreign Trade Indexes for Japan measure the value and volume of exports and imports traded with the U.S., EU, Asia, and the rest of the world. The data are released in conjunction with Foreign Trade statistics. Monthly from 1998.

Methodology

Authority: The Trade Statistics of Japan are made and published by the Ministry of Finance and the Customs under the provision of the Customs Law and the relevant international conventions. The method is described in the Order of Director General of the Customs and Tariff Bureau.

Source: Declarations submitted to Customs.

Exports: Entry is made in the month within which falls the date when a ship or aircraft loading the goods concerned leaves a Japanese port. Valued at FOB.

Imports: Entry is made in the month within which falls the date of the import permit. Valued at CIF.

Geographic aggregates

The aggregate "EU" refers to the changing-composition European Union. That is, the index at time T refers to the N members of time T. (Direct communication with source.)

1979~1980: 9
1981~1985: 10
1986~1994: 12
1995~2003: 15
2004~2006: 25
2007~2012: 27
2013~present: 28

The aggregate "Asia" includes China.

Revisions

Data are subject to three revisions - provisional, detailed, and fixed.

The dataset is rebased every five years. Data Buffet now has four vintages: 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015.