The rising trend in Japan’s wooden office furniture imports from the 3Q 2017 came to an end in April 2018. The value of April imports were flat year-on-year and down 14% compared to the value of March imports, as ITTO reported.
In April 2018 the big losers were shippers of wooden office furniture in Portugal, Poland and the US. Japan’s April imports from China, the number one supplier, were unchanged from a month earlier and accounted for 54% of all wooden office furniture imports. The other main suppliers were Switzerland 9% and the US 8.5%.
