Return1. Silk products trade in June
According to statistics from the Ministry of Finance of Japan, the trade value of silk products in June was 130 million US dollars, down 18.94% from the previous month and up 4.87% from the same period last year. Among them, the import value was 112 million US dollars, down 22.55% month-on-month and up 4.42% year-on-year; the export value was 17.6233 million US dollars, rising 15.17% on a monthly basis and 7.86% from the year earlier. Details were as follows:
Import: The amount of silk filament was 6.5758 million US dollars, down by 19.36% month-on-month and up by 50.72% YOY, with its quantity dropping 10.59% from the previous month and growing 36.18% from the year earlier to 118.42 tons; the amount of silk fabrics was 9.9299 million US dollars, falling 6.79% and 10.89% from the previous month and year respectively; The amount of silk madeups was 95.5941 million US dollars, down by 24.09% from the previous month and up by 4.08% YOY.
Export: The amount of silk filament was 0.1861 million US dollars, decreasing 12.52% month-on-month and 13.97% YOY, with its quantity dropping 11.84% month-on-month and growing 19.6% YOY to 2.33 tons; the amount of silk fabrics was 14.3658 million US dollars, rising 17.88% and falling 1.72% from the previous month and year respectively; The amount of silk madeups was 3.0714 million US dollars, rising 5.81% month-on-month and 104.04% YOY.
2. Silk products trade from January to June
From January to June, Japan’s silk trade value totaled 924 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 0.13%. Among them, the import value was 830 million US dollars, down 0.67% YOY; the export value was 93.5174 million US dollars, up 7.82% YOY(the same below). Details were as follows:
Among the imported products, silk filament amounted to 35.6028 million US dollars, growing 45.54%, with its quantity jumping 16.06% to 627.03 tons; silk fabrics amounted to 60.2305 million US dollars, with a decrease of 8.47%; Silk madeups amounted to 734 million US dollars, down 1.5% .
The major sources of imports were China (460 million US dollars, up 0.9%, accounting for 55.35%), Vietnam (134 million US dollars, down 4.37%, accounting for 16.08%), Italy (49.2717 million US dollars, down 5.93% , accounting for 5.93%), Bangladesh (36.5506 million US dollars, up 22.49%, accounting for 4.4%), Cambodian (25.9945 million US dollars, down 19.08%, accounting for 3.13%). The total proportion of the 5 sources above was 84.89%.
Among the export products, silk filament amounted to 1.3806 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 5.27%, with the quantity jumping 7.79% to 19.22 tons; silk fabrics amounted to 71.5717 million US dollars, down 3.36% YOY; silk madeups amounted to 20.5605 million US dollars, an increase of 83.29% YOY.
The major export markets were China (37.1997 million US dollars, up 12.42%, accounting for 39.78%), Vietnam (25.4545 million US dollars, down 16.77%, accounting for 27.22%), Hongkong, China (7.9161 million US dollars, up 178.39%, accounting for 8.46%), Bangladesh (3.9339 million US dollars, up 4142.98%, accounting for 4.21%), Thailand (2.6797 million US dollars, down 6.43%, accounting for 2.87%). The five markets above accounted for 82.54% of the total.
The original Chinese edition is from CCCT, translated and edited by esilk. net.
