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Trade between Japan and Romania

In 2024, Japan exported $475 million to Romania and imported $1.1 billion. Japan ran a deficit of $657 million with Romania, compared with a deficit of $519 million in 2019. Romania was Japan’s 57th largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and Japan was Romania’s 27th (0.7%).

Summary

Japan → Romania
$475million
Romania → Japan
$1.1billion
Japan’s balance
-$657million

Balance

Japan’s trade balance with Romania

Trade between Japan and Romania grew 11.3-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.5
  • Imports 1.1
  • Balance -0.7

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$78 million$64 million$14 million
1996$104 million$53 million$51 million
1997$151 million$60 million$91 million
1998$86 million$49 million$37 million
1999$114 million$47 million$67 million
2000$170 million$50 million$120 million
2001$154 million$46 million$108 million
2002$217 million$51 million$166 million
2003$315 million$63 million$252 million
2004$437 million$100 million$337 million
2005$580 million$149 million$430 million
2006$663 million$177 million$486 million
2007$432 million$218 million$214 million
2008$448 million$217 million$231 million
2009$312 million$213 million$99 million
2010$297 million$291 million$6 million
2011$427 million$423 million$4 million
2012$358 million$398 million-$40 million
2013$278 million$473 million-$195 million
2014$317 million$460 million-$143 million
2015$328 million$416 million-$88 million
2016$385 million$443 million-$58 million
2017$391 million$566 million-$175 million
2018$420 million$783 million-$363 million
2019$342 million$861 million-$519 million
2020$348 million$943 million-$595 million
2021$365 million$870 million-$505 million
2022$326 million$1.1 billion-$801 million
2023$433 million$1.3 billion-$862 million
2024$475 million$1.1 billion-$657 million

What they sell each other

What Japan sells to Romania

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

  1. Cars$192 million · 40.3%
    10 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  2. Copper plates and strip$24 million · 5.2%
    268 tonnes
  3. Auto parts$15 million · 3.2%
    1 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  4. Synthetic rubber$13 million · 2.8%
    3 thousand tonnes
  5. Ball and roller bearings$12 million · 2.6%
    3 thousand tonnes
  6. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$12 million · 2.5%
    6 tonnes
  7. Control panels$10 million · 2%
    80 tonnes
  8. Other plastic articles$10 million · 2%
    298 tonnes
  9. Seamless steel pipes$9 million · 2%
    2 thousand tonnes
  10. Other iron or steel articles$9 million · 1.8%
    1 thousand tonnes

What Romania sells to Japan

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

  1. Other processed tobacco$580 million · 51.2%
    7 thousand tonnes
  2. Sawn wood$53 million · 4.7%
    92 thousand tonnes · Japan’s sources
  3. Women's coats and jackets$44 million · 3.9%
    53 tonnes
  4. Wood joinery$42 million · 3.7%
    49 thousand tonnes
  5. Men's coats and jackets$41 million · 3.7%
    46 tonnes
  6. Video recorders and players$41 million · 3.6%
    80 tonnes
  7. Control instruments$36 million · 3.2%
    266 tonnes
  8. Physical and chemical analysis instruments$22 million · 1.9%
    90 tonnes
  9. Electric heaters and hair dryers$21 million · 1.9%
    852 tonnes
  10. Bags, suitcases and cases$15 million · 1.3%
    36 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Yokohama to Constanța.

The estimated sea route between Yokohama and Constanța is 15,873 nautical miles (29,397 km) long: ≈ 36.5–47 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Cape of Good Hope, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus (15,873 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the Suez Canal, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus (9,079 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$571 million · 35.6%
  2. Air$1 billion · 64.4%

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

How much each matters to the other

Romania was Japan’s 57th largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and Japan was Romania’s 27th (0.7%).

Romania in Japan’s trade
0.1%
Romania’s rank among Japan’s partners
57th
Japan in Romania’s trade
0.7%
Japan’s rank among Romania’s partners
27th

Compare with

Other partners of Japan

Other partners of Romania

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.