Year-on-year, Japan’s April 2018 imports of wooden windows were down just over 25% and compared to levels in March here was a 10% decline, as ITTO reported.
After the slight recovery in the value of wooden window imports in March which reversed the downward trend recorded in the previous two months, April imports declined.
The top three shippers of wooden windows to Japan in April were the same as in March but shippers in China displaced the US as the top supplier by a small margin.
In April China accounted for 32% of Japan’s wooden window imports followed by the US (28%) and the Philippines (23%). There was a substantial import of wooden windows from Sweden in April which accounted for a further 9% of total wooden window imports.
