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South Africa's imports and exports from the land of the rising sun, Japan over the last three months ending Feb 2019
Date: 1 May 2019 Category: Economics |
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We take a look at the latest merchandise trade statistics as published by SARS regarding the goods South Africa imports from Japan and the goods we export to the land of the rising sun. What exactly are we importing from Japan and exporting to Japan? We take a look.
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South African exports to Japan
So what exactly is South Africa importing from Japan? Is it only cars? Or is it cameras? Or machinery and equipment? And what are we exporting to Japan? Fruits and vegetables? iron ore, coal or steel? Lets start off with looking at South Africa's exports to Japan.
The summary below shows the main product categories exported by South Africa to Japan for January 2019 to March 2019:
Total Exports from South Africa to Japan from January 2019 to March 2019 amounted to R 14 356 571 712
The tree chart below shows the main product exports to Japan during February 2019 from South Africa. As can be seen the bulk of SA exports to Japan were precious metals, products of iron and steel and mineral products.
The summary below shows the main product categories exported by South Africa to Japan for January 2019 to March 2019:
- Live animals: R 14 893 000
- Vegetables: R 126 899 705
- Animal or vegetable fats: R 4 254 545
- Prepared foodstuffs: R 134 851 979
- Mineral Products: R 2 235 661 659
- Chemicals: R 378 907 038
- Plastics & Rubber: R 10 410 862
- Raw hides & leather: R 4 032 337
- Wood Products: R 501 064 057
- Wood pulp & paper: R 5 545 681
- Textiles: R 7 094 733
- Footwear: R 883 687
- Stone & Glass: R 2 127 838
- Precious Metal: R 7 532 812 760
- Products Iron & Steel: R 2 153 721 750
- Machinery: R 65 186 240
- Vehicles aircraft & vessels: R 1 163 381 975
- Photographic & medical equipment: R 7 715 089
- Toys & Sport apparel: R 6 361 930
- Works of art: R 7 074
- Other unclassified goods: R 757 773
Total Exports from South Africa to Japan from January 2019 to March 2019 amounted to R 14 356 571 712
The tree chart below shows the main product exports to Japan during February 2019 from South Africa. As can be seen the bulk of SA exports to Japan were precious metals, products of iron and steel and mineral products.
South African exports to Japan
So what did South Africa import from Japan during the period January 2019 to March 2019? The summary below shows the imports per main product category :
The tree map below shows the imports into South Africa from Japan for the month of February 2019. The bulk of the imports into South Africa from Japan was made up by vehicles, equipment components (parts for motor vehicles) and machinery.
- Live animals: R 11 690 912
- Vegetables: R 889 543
- Animal or vegetable fats: R 4 070 349
- Prepared foodstuffs: R 10 272 108
- Mineral Products: R 29 983 705
- Chemicals: R 428 206 618
- Plastics & Rubber: R 425 548 667
- Raw hides & leather: R 229 333
- Wood Products: R 108 942
- Wood pulp & paper: R 28 480 622
- Textiles: R 48 489 123
- Footwear: R 2 154 396
- Stone & Glass: R 233 056 457
- Precious Metal: R 5 464 057
- Products Iron & Steel: R 367 721 514
- Machinery: R 2 325 925 309
- Vehicles aircraft & vessels: R 2 640 759 873
- Photographic & medical equipment: R 349 068 666
- Toys & Sport apparel: R 61 628 095
- Works of art: R 84 613
- Other unclassified goods: R 3 460 728
- Equipment Components: R 2 435 510 549
The tree map below shows the imports into South Africa from Japan for the month of February 2019. The bulk of the imports into South Africa from Japan was made up by vehicles, equipment components (parts for motor vehicles) and machinery.
South African imports from Japan at product level
During the period January 2019 to March 2019 South Africa had a net trade balance/ trade surplus with Japan of R4.9 billion. So South Africa exported R4.9 billion more to Japan during the period in question than what they imported from Japan.