In 2018, Japan’s wooden office furniture imports values were down 16% from a year earlier. In 2018 the top suppliers in order of rank were China (62%), Poland and Italy (6% each), the USA (5%) and Portugal (4%), as ITTO reported.
2018 imports from China were down around 5%, Poland scored a 40% rise in 2018 shipments over 2017. In contrast shipments from Italy fell more than a quarter. Shipments from both the USA and Portugal were significantly higher than in 2017.
The top five shippers of wooden office furniture accounted for 83% of all Japan’s imports of this category of furniture.
