Year-on-year July Japan’s wooden kitchen furniture imports were up 29% while compared to June imports rose 8%. For the first time in several months arrivals of wooden kitchen furniture from German manufacturers jumped above those from Malaysia, as ITTO reported.
In July exporters in the Philippines and Vietnam maintained their huge share of Japan’s imports of wooden kitchen furniture.
For the second consecutive month shipments from the Phillipines were marginally above those from Vietnam. Over 90% of Japan’s July imports of wooden kitchen furniture came from 3 suppliers, the Philippines (48%), Vietnam (38%) and China (8%).
