August 2017 marked the low point in Japan’s imports of wooden office furniture. Since then imports have risen steadily and only in February 2018 was there the first signs of a slowdown as imports dropped about 1% compared to January. Year-on-year wooden office furniture imports in February 2018 were some 32% above the value of February 2017 imports, as ITTO reported.
The top four shippers of wooden office furniture to Japan in February 2018 accounted for almost 90% of all imports of this category of furniture. China was the largest supplier at 74% of the total in February followed by Taiwan P.o.C (5%), Poland (5%) and the US (4%).
