Year-on-year, Japan’s August imports of wooden kitchen furniture were up 17% and month-on-month import values rose 12%, as ITTO reported.
The top three shippers of wooden kitchen furniture to Japan in August were the Philippines at 47% of all imports followed by Vietnam at 35% and China at 9%. In August shipments from Vietnam rose 11% month–on-month and Chinese shippers secured a 50% rise in month-on-month exports to Japan.
The value of Japan’s wooden kitchen furniture imports continue to move in a very narrow range. Tracking exports of this category of furniture over the past 4 years it has been observed that wooden kitchen furniture imports do not follow the month by month trend observed for both wooden office and bedroom furniture signaling there are different demand drives in play for wooden kitchen furniture.
