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Trade between Israel and Japan

In 2024, Israel exported $1.4 billion to Japan and imported $1.6 billion. Israel ran a deficit of $272 million with Japan, compared with a deficit of $931 million in 2019. Japan was Israel’s 17th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Israel was Japan’s 43rd (0.2%).

Summary

Israel → Japan
$1.4billion
Japan → Israel
$1.6billion
Israel’s balance
-$272million

Balance

Israel’s trade balance with Japan

Trade between Israel and Japan grew 32% since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.4
  • Imports 1.6
  • Balance -0.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$1.4 billion$904 million$486 million
1996$1.4 billion$1.1 billion$286 million
1997$1.1 billion$992 million$110 million
1998$863 million$985 million-$122 million
1999$927 million$1.1 billion-$180 million
2000$1 billion$1.3 billion-$250 million
2001$909 million$1.1 billion-$162 million
2002$807 million$825 million-$17 million
2003$742 million$855 million-$112 million
2004$854 million$1.2 billion-$361 million
2005$881 million$1.2 billion-$368 million
2006$873 million$1.3 billion-$434 million
2007$954 million$1.9 billion-$950 million
2008$979 million$2.2 billion-$1.2 billion
2009$830 million$1.5 billion-$688 million
2010$866 million$1.8 billion-$917 million
2011$1.1 billion$2.5 billion-$1.4 billion
2012$1.1 billion$1.5 billion-$347 million
2013$1.5 billion$1.1 billion$385 million
2014$1.7 billion$1.3 billion$418 million
2015$1.5 billion$1.2 billion$283 million
2016$1.3 billion$2.3 billion-$1 billion
2017$1.1 billion$2.1 billion-$971 million
2018$1.4 billion$2.7 billion-$1.3 billion
2019$1.2 billion$2.1 billion-$931 million
2020$1.2 billion$1.3 billion-$46 million
2021$1.3 billion$1.7 billion-$386 million
2022$1.3 billion$1.6 billion-$335 million
2023$1.4 billion$1.7 billion-$300 million
2024$1.4 billion$1.6 billion-$272 million

What they sell each other

What Israel sells to Japan

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

  1. Microchips$343 million · 24.9%
    883 tonnes · Israel’s destinations
  2. Medical and dental instruments$150 million · 10.9%
    228 tonnes · Israel’s destinations
  3. Fruit and vegetable juices$109 million · 7.9%
    31 thousand tonnes
  4. Turbojets and gas turbines$89 million · 6.5%
    43 tonnes · Japan’s sources
  5. Other measuring instruments$55 million · 4%
    135 tonnes
  6. Carbide inserts and tips$39 million · 2.9%
    94 tonnes
  7. Radar, GPS receivers and remote controls$37 million · 2.7%
    11 tonnes
  8. Diamonds$28 million · 2.1%
    Israel’s destinations
  9. Physical and chemical analysis instruments$28 million · 2%
    22 tonnes
  10. Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds$26 million · 1.9%
    883 tonnes

What Japan sells to Israel

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

  1. Cars$1 billion · 60.7%
    48 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  2. Cameras and broadcast equipment$59 million · 3.6%
    51 tonnes
  3. Other industrial machines$43 million · 2.6%
    196 tonnes
  4. Refrigerators, freezers and heat pumps$34 million · 2.1%
    93 tonnes
  5. Silicon wafers for electronics$30 million · 1.8%
    68 tonnes
  6. Diamonds$22 million · 1.3%
    Israel’s sources
  7. Photographic plates and flat film$21 million · 1.3%
    2 thousand tonnes
  8. New tires$21 million · 1.3%
    683 tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  9. Trucks$17 million · 1%
    2 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  10. Medical and dental instruments$15 million · 0.94%
    48 tonnes · Japan’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Haifa to Yokohama.

The estimated sea route between Haifa and Yokohama is 15,922 nautical miles (29,488 km) long: ≈ 37–47.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Gibraltar, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (15,922 nautical miles); and 15% via the Suez Canal, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (8,254 nautical miles).

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$1.6 billion · 51.9%
  2. Air$1.5 billion · 48.1%

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

How much each matters to the other

Japan was Israel’s 17th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Israel was Japan’s 43rd (0.2%).

Japan in Israel’s trade
2%
Japan’s rank among Israel’s partners
17th
Israel in Japan’s trade
0.2%
Israel’s rank among Japan’s partners
43rd

Compare with

Other partners of Israel

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.