Mirroring the trend with door imports, the value of Japan’s imports of wooden windows also fell sharply in February. Year-on-year, February imports dropped around 36% and month-on-month there was a slightly faster decline, as ITTO reported.
In February four shippers, China, US, the Philippines and Sweden, once again provided over 90% of the value of Japan’s wooden window imports. Manufacturers in China accounted for 36% of February 2020 shipments of wooden windows to Japan followed by the US (24%), the Philippines (26%, up significantly from January shipments) and Sweden (6%).
