Dec 03, 2015. /Lesprom Network/. Japan's office furniture imports rose around 5% in October 2015 and compared to the previous month imports were up a healthy 17%, ITTO reported.

The top three suppliers remain China, Portugal and Italy and these three accounted for almost 75% of all office furniture imports in October. In terms of suppliers from the EU both Lithuania and Poland saw a rise in office furniture imports by Japan.

Month-on-month, China’s office furniture exports to Japan fell 10% while the other two major suppliers, Portugal and Italy saw a rise in demand (+50% and +36%, respectively).

Despite the overall rise in October office furniture imports, the big looser was China. The bulk of the expansion in October imports was because EU suppliers delivered more.