Year-on-year Japan's wooden door imports dropped 28% and compared to July imports in August were down around 20%, as ITTO reported.
August is holiday month in Japan and construction activity is down to about 2 weeks in the month. Given the slow August building activity one could have expected a drop in imports of housing components such as doors in the preceding months but this was not apparent. However there was a decline in the value of wooden door imports in August.
As in previous months the main shippers of wooden doors to Japan were China (58% of August imports) the US 23% and Malaysia 5%, an improvement on shipments delivered to Japan in July.
