Judging from the July data, China accounts for 56% of Japan' s wooden door imports and is the largest wooden door import market.

The Philippines ranked second, accounting for 30% of imports. The other importing country is Indonesia, which provided 6% of the total value of wooden door imports in July.

Compared with the same period last year, imports in July 2021 were flat, but compared with June of the same year, imports in July fell by 4%.

After peaking in May this year, the import value of Japanese wooden windows fell for two consecutive months, with a month-on-month drop of 5% in June and a 3% drop in July.

As expected, imports in July were higher than the same period in 2020, but the year-on-year increase was small.

Among them, 90% of the imports of wooden windows come from three major countries. Among them, imports of wooden windows from China account for 47% of the share, the United States is 27%, and the Philippines is 19%.

In July, Japan' s wood flooring imports increased by 24% year-on-year.

Before June, the import value of assembled wood floors had fallen for three consecutive months, while the import value of assembled floors rose sharply in June, and there was a callback in July. Compared with the explosive growth in June, the import value fell by 15%.

Of these, 45% are from China, which is still Japan' s largest importer. Suppliers in Vietnam also performed relatively well, accounting for 22% of imports in July 2021. Another major supplier is Indonesia, which accounted for 17% of the value of imports in July 2021.

Plywood imports increased by nearly 40% year-on-year, compared with a month ago, plywood imports increased by nearly 10%.

Although showing obvious fluctuations, the import volume of plywood in the first 7 months of this year has shown an overall upward trend. Imports are higher than in 2020, and imports in July 2021 are about 8% higher than the same period in 2019 before the epidemic.

Among the four main shipping countries of plywood, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Vietnam still dominate.

Shipments from China in July increased slightly compared to a month ago, and arrivals from Malaysia increased as well as those from Vietnam, but imports from Indonesia in July were about the same as last month.

Looking at the first half of the year, Japan' s timber demand was 8.155 million m³, a year-on-year increase of 4.3%; the demand for plywood was 2.552 million m³, a year-on-year increase of 5.7%.

Due to the decline in imports, the supply of wood products is obviously tight, and the demand for domestic products has increased significantly, and the log purchases of domestic sawmills have increased significantly.

Japan' s log supply was 6.248 million m³, an increase of 1.2%; imports of 1.907 million m³, an increase of 16.1%.

Most of them are logs produced in North America, and the total import volume reached 1,264,259m³, a year-on-year increase of 30.8%.

Due to the rising cost of logs, sales continue to be active. The supply of plywood in Japan is the most tight. The largest manufacturer of cork plywood announced that it will increase the sales price of cork delivered from August 1 to 1,100 yen per sheet.

The price of cypress logs soared to nearly 30,000 yen for delivery per cubic meter, and the price of Northeast larch logs climbed to 18,000 yen. The supply of North American Douglas fir logs and Russian larch veneer is very small, far from being able to fill the shortage of local logs.

The current market price of 12mm 3x6 cork plywood in the Tokyo market is 1,000-1,050 yen. The manufacturer raised the price to 1,050 yen in early July, and then again to 1,100 yen in early August.

As far as timber is concerned, the United States is still Japan' s number one importer with 36,081 cbms, which is 108.7% higher than China. But in terms of finished wood products, including wood products such as furniture and household goods, China is still the main source country that accounts for Japan' s largest export volume.