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EU–Japan trade in machinery & mechanical appliances
In May 2026, the EU exported €543M of machinery & mechanical appliances to Japan and imported €1.1B — a €508M deficit in this category.
The EU's machinery & mechanical appliances deficit with Japan has widened by about 21% over the past year, from €420M to €508M.
Japan supplied about 4% of the EU's extra-EU imports of machinery & mechanical appliances in May 2026.
Updated monthly · latest data May 2026
— EU exports— EU imports137 months · latest 2026-05
EU exports
€543M
EU imports
€1.1B
Balance
−€508M
Top sub-categories traded with Japan
EU exports →
- 8411Turbojets, turbopropellers and other gas turbines€69M
- 8471Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, n.e.s.€57M
- 8408Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine "diesel or semi-diesel engine"€39M
- 8481Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, incl. pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves; parts thereof€29M
- 8479Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof€28M
← EU imports
- 8443Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 (excl. hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines and other office printing machines of heading 8469 to 8472); other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts thereof€132M
- 8486Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines and apparatus specified in note 9 C to chapter 84; parts and accessories, n.e.s.€114M
- 8429Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and roadrollers€97M
- 8411Turbojets, turbopropellers and other gas turbines€80M
- 8428Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, e.g. lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics (excl. pulley tackle and hoists, winches and capstans, jacks, cranes of all kinds, mobile lifting frames and straddle carriers, works trucks fitted with a crane, fork-lift trucks and other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment)€62M
Monthly figures
| Month | EU exports | EU imports | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | €543M | €1.1B | −€508M |
| April 2026 | €621M | €1.4B | −€763M |
| March 2026 | €675M | €1.3B | −€621M |
| February 2026 | €608M | €1.3B | −€667M |
| January 2026 | €527M | €1.1B | −€528M |
| December 2025 | €958M | €1.2B | −€206M |
| November 2025 | €607M | €1.1B | −€535M |
| October 2025 | €722M | €1.5B | −€789M |
| September 2025 | €581M | €1.0B | −€464M |
| August 2025 | €511M | €1.0B | −€500M |
| July 2025 | €721M | €1.2B | −€486M |
| June 2025 | €543M | €1.1B | −€508M |
| May 2025 | €749M | €1.2B | −€420M |
| April 2025 | €535M | €1.1B | −€536M |
| March 2025 | €623M | €1.1B | −€485M |
| February 2025 | €694M | €1.0B | −€336M |
| January 2025 | €559M | €1.0B | −€481M |
| December 2024 | €979M | €1.0B | −€49M |
| November 2024 | €791M | €1.0B | −€242M |
| October 2024 | €612M | €1.0B | −€415M |
| September 2024 | €588M | €1.1B | −€468M |
| August 2024 | €482M | €1.0B | −€543M |
| July 2024 | €646M | €1.0B | −€372M |
| June 2024 | €696M | €1.0B | −€320M |
EU exports, imports and balance by month — extra-EU, EU27 reporter, latest 24 months.
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Source: Eurostat — Comext DS-059341 · EU27 reporter · extra-EU trade · value in EUR. Figures are indicative and may be revised; verify against Eurostat before relying on them.