Japan's clothing imports increase 4% in H1 2021

Among the Asian countries, imports from China stood at 697.901 billion yen ($6.33 billion), showing a rise of 3.1 per cent year-on-year, the data showed.

During January-June 2021, Japan imported apparel and accessories worth 62.406 billion yen ($566.01 million) from the EU, up 9.4 per cent year-on-year. The Far Eastern country also imported 4.640 billion yen ($42.08 million) worth of clothing and accessories from the US, showing a slight decrease of 0.2 per cent.

Meanwhile, the value of Japan’s import of textile yarn and fabrics declined by 30.4 per cent year-on-year to 484.880 billion yen ($4.40 billion) during the six-month period under review. A bulk of these imports valued at 441.559 billion yen ($4.00 billion) were supplied by the countries in the Asian region, with China alone accounting for 283.540 billion yen ($2.57 billion), while imports from Asean nations stood at 101.582 billion yen ($921.33 million).

Japan imported yarn and fabric worth 23.329 billion yen ($211.59 million) from the EU countries, whereas its imports from the US were valued at 9.856 billion yen ($89.39 million) in H1 2021.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (RKS)