January data for the value of Japan’s wooden kitchen furniture imports reaffirmed the dominance of the top two shippers, the Philippines and Vietnam which together accounted around 95% of Japan’s wooden kitchen furniture imports in the first month of the year, as ITTO reported.
In January shipments of wooden kitchen furniture from the Philippines topped those from Vietnam. The third largest shipper, China, could only secure a 14% share of imports in January.
Year-on-year the value of January 2019 imports of wooden kitchen furniture were up 14%, but month-on-month there was little change. Other shippers of note in January were Germany and Italy but the value of shipments was small.
