In the second half of 2019 the value of Japan’s imports of wooden windows were more volatile than in the fist half of the year. Year-on-year, January 2020 import values were down 17% but there was a 9% rise in the value of January imports relative to a month earlier, as ITTO reported.
Just four shippers, China, US, the Philippines and Sweden provided over 90% of the value of Japan’s wooden window imports in January 2020. Manufacturers in China accounted for over 40% of January 2020 shipments of wooden windows to Japan followed by the US (24%), the Philippines (15%) and Sweden (11%).
