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Trade between Czechia and Japan

In 2024, Czechia exported $1.7 billion to Japan and imported $4 billion. Czechia ran a deficit of $2.4 billion with Japan, compared with a deficit of $1.8 billion in 2019. Japan was Czechia’s 16th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Czechia was Japan’s 34th (0.4%).

Summary

Czechia → Japan
$1.7billion
Japan → Czechia
$4billion
Czechia’s balance
-$2.4billion

Balance

Czechia’s trade balance with Japan

Trade between Czechia and Japan grew 9.8-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Czechia’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 1.7
  • Imports 4
  • Balance -2.4

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$169 million$415 million-$246 million
1996$135 million$472 million-$337 million
1997$116 million$247 million-$130 million
1998$99 million$601 million-$502 million
1999$113 million$565 million-$452 million
2000$159 million$624 million-$465 million
2001$174 million$664 million-$490 million
2002$188 million$918 million-$730 million
2003$211 million$1.1 billion-$923 million
2004$281 million$2.2 billion-$1.9 billion
2005$398 million$2.4 billion-$2 billion
2006$444 million$2.7 billion-$2.3 billion
2007$511 million$3.7 billion-$3.2 billion
2008$525 million$4.5 billion-$4 billion
2009$434 million$3.1 billion-$2.7 billion
2010$554 million$2.9 billion-$2.3 billion
2011$669 million$2.9 billion-$2.2 billion
2012$842 million$2.7 billion-$1.8 billion
2013$895 million$2.6 billion-$1.7 billion
2014$938 million$2.5 billion-$1.5 billion
2015$922 million$2.2 billion-$1.2 billion
2016$997 million$2.4 billion-$1.4 billion
2017$1 billion$2.8 billion-$1.8 billion
2018$1.1 billion$2.9 billion-$1.8 billion
2019$1.2 billion$2.9 billion-$1.8 billion
2020$1.1 billion$2.7 billion-$1.6 billion
2021$1.8 billion$4 billion-$2.3 billion
2022$2.1 billion$3.8 billion-$1.7 billion
2023$1.5 billion$4 billion-$2.6 billion
2024$1.7 billion$4 billion-$2.4 billion

What they sell each other

What Czechia sells to Japan

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Computers$327 million · 19.5%
    782 tonnes · Czechia’s destinations
  2. Slag and ash with metals$200 million · 11.9%
    2 thousand tonnes
  3. Cameras and broadcast equipment$191 million · 11.4%
    477 tonnes
  4. Computer and office machine parts$116 million · 6.9%
    225 tonnes
  5. Precious metal scrap$53 million · 3.2%
    888 tonnes
  6. Electron microscopes$51 million · 3.1%
    91 tonnes
  7. Pet and animal feed$44 million · 2.7%
    13 thousand tonnes
  8. Sawn wood$32 million · 1.9%
    51 thousand tonnes · Japan’s sources
  9. Engine parts$32 million · 1.9%
    835 tonnes
  10. Bags, suitcases and cases$32 million · 1.9%
    328 tonnes

What Japan sells to Czechia

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cars$673 million · 16.7%
    33 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  2. Printers and printing machines$230 million · 5.7%
    3 thousand tonnes
  3. Motor and generator parts$187 million · 4.6%
    18 thousand tonnes
  4. Auto parts$162 million · 4%
    11 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  5. Precious metal compounds$128 million · 3.2%
    23 tonnes
  6. Control panels$123 million · 3.1%
    2 thousand tonnes
  7. Transformers and power supplies$110 million · 2.7%
    2 thousand tonnes
  8. Batteries$108 million · 2.7%
    3 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  9. Discs and storage media$89 million · 2.2%
    611 tonnes
  10. Electric motors and generators$79 million · 2%
    3 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Hamburg (Germany) to Yokohama.

The estimated sea route between Hamburg (Germany) and Yokohama is 15,247 nautical miles (28,237 km) long: ≈ 35.5–45.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Dover, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (15,247 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Dover, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (11,726 nautical miles).

Czechia is landlocked: it ships through Hamburg (Germany).

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$2.5 billion · 43.9%
  2. Air$3.2 billion · 56.1%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Japan was Czechia’s 16th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Czechia was Japan’s 34th (0.4%).

Japan in Czechia’s trade
1.3%
Japan’s rank among Czechia’s partners
16th
Czechia in Japan’s trade
0.4%
Czechia’s rank among Japan’s partners
34th

Compare with

Other partners of Czechia

Other partners of Japan

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.