Japan’s clothing and accessory imports increased by 24.8 percent year-on-year to 233,597 million yen in June 2022. Reported by the provisional trade statistics released by the Far Eastern country’s ministry of finance, this accounted for 2.3 percent of the total import of 10,013,136 million yen during June.

The import of textile yarn and fabrics were valued at 109,056 million yen in June 2022 according to latest data, an increase of more than 34 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, accounting for 1.1 percent of the Japan’s total imports.

Japan’s export of textile yarn and fabrics was worth 70,249 million yen, with a rise of 19 per cent year-on-year, accounting for 0.8 per cent of the total export of 8614,670 million yen from Japan during June 2022.

Japan exported textile machinery of 20,075 million yarn, which was 7 per cent lower than June 2021. It contributed 0.2 per cent in total export.

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