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Trade between Japan and Taiwan

In 2024, Japan exported $45.3 billion to Taiwan and imported $28.1 billion. Japan ran a surplus of $17.2 billion with Taiwan, compared with a surplus of $18.3 billion in 2019. Taiwan was Japan’s 4th largest trading partner (5% of its trade), and Japan was Taiwan’s 3rd (8%).

Summary

Japan → Taiwan
$45.3billion
Taiwan → Japan
$28.1billion
Japan’s balance
$17.2billion

Balance

Japan’s trade balance with Taiwan

Trade between Japan and Taiwan grew 73% since 1995

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

  • Exports 45.3
  • Imports 28.1
  • Balance +17.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$28.4 billion$14.1 billion$14.3 billion
1996$25.4 billion$14.6 billion$10.8 billion
1997$27.9 billion$12.3 billion$15.6 billion
1998$25.7 billion$10.1 billion$15.7 billion
1999$28.7 billion$12.7 billion$16 billion
2000$35.6 billion$15.8 billion$19.8 billion
2001$24.3 billion$12.8 billion$11.5 billion
2002$26.4 billion$12.2 billion$14.2 billion
2003$32.4 billion$14 billion$18.4 billion
2004$42.2 billion$13.9 billion$28.3 billion
2005$43.6 billion$15.1 billion$28.5 billion
2006$43.2 billion$18.6 billion$24.6 billion
2007$43.4 billion$18.8 billion$24.6 billion
2008$44.1 billion$20.2 billion$23.9 billion
2009$34.8 billion$18.1 billion$16.6 billion
2010$49.9 billion$17.8 billion$32.2 billion
2011$49.8 billion$19 billion$30.8 billion
2012$43.1 billion$22.2 billion$20.9 billion
2013$40.9 billion$21.8 billion$19 billion
2014$40.3 billion$22.4 billion$17.9 billion
2015$37.6 billion$21.3 billion$16.3 billion
2016$39.5 billion$21.2 billion$18.3 billion
2017$41.1 billion$23.7 billion$17.3 billion
2018$43 billion$25.2 billion$17.8 billion
2019$43.3 billion$25.1 billion$18.3 billion
2020$44.9 billion$25.2 billion$19.7 billion
2021$54.7 billion$31 billion$23.8 billion
2022$52.8 billion$36 billion$16.8 billion
2023$43.1 billion$33.1 billion$10 billion
2024$45.3 billion$28.1 billion$17.2 billion

What they sell each other

What Japan sells to Taiwan

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

  1. Microchips$8.2 billion · 18.2%
    2 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  2. Other industrial machines$5 billion · 11%
    31 thousand tonnes
  3. Cars$2.2 billion · 4.9%
    142 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  4. Silicon wafers for electronics$1.7 billion · 3.8%
    2 thousand tonnes
  5. Refined copper$1.5 billion · 3.3%
    159 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  6. Gold$1.2 billion · 2.7%
    15 tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  7. Photographic chemicals$869 million · 1.9%
    6 thousand tonnes
  8. Capacitors$811 million · 1.8%
    1 thousand tonnes
  9. Cyclic hydrocarbons$790 million · 1.8%
    762 thousand tonnes
  10. Printed circuit boards$744 million · 1.6%
    576 tonnes

What Taiwan sells to Japan

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

  1. Microchips$13.5 billion · 48.1%
    21 thousand tonnes · Taiwan’s destinations
  2. Computers$825 million · 2.9%
    3 thousand tonnes · Taiwan’s destinations
  3. Cameras and broadcast equipment$730 million · 2.6%
    2 thousand tonnes
  4. Polyethers, polyesters and epoxy resins$728 million · 2.6%
    568 thousand tonnes
  5. Other industrial machines$505 million · 1.8%
    6 thousand tonnes
  6. Computer and office machine parts$390 million · 1.4%
    3 thousand tonnes
  7. Discs and storage media$384 million · 1.4%
    7 thousand tonnes
  8. Optical fibers and lenses$362 million · 1.3%
    2 thousand tonnes
  9. Hot-rolled flat steel$335 million · 1.2%
    506 thousand tonnes
  10. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$294 million · 1.1%
    8 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Yokohama to Kaohsiung.

The estimated sea route between Yokohama and Kaohsiung is 1,428 nautical miles (2,644 km) long: ≈ 3.5–4 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

It does not cross any major canal or strait.

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$26.7 billion · 36.4%
  2. Air$46.7 billion · 63.6%

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

How much each matters to the other

Taiwan was Japan’s 4th largest trading partner (5% of its trade), and Japan was Taiwan’s 3rd (8%).

Taiwan in Japan’s trade
5%
Taiwan’s rank among Japan’s partners
4th
Japan in Taiwan’s trade
7.8%
Japan’s rank among Taiwan’s partners
3rd

Compare with

Other partners of Japan

Other partners of Taiwan

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.