2007, Japan ink production than in 2006, production fell by 1.4%, to 448,000 tons. Japan ink production in 2006 has reached 455,000 tons, a record high. In addition, Japan ink shipments and the amount of shipments in 2007 are slightly reduced. In 2007, Japan’s output of ink drop although not quite, but it is an overall decline, all kinds of ink, without exception, all less than the previous year.
in Japan, is divided into two major categories of printing ink, ink and general information that is ink. News ink production in 2007 to nearly 59,000 tons, less than the previous year 1.8%. Shipments to reduce 0.5%, reduced shipping 1.4%. General
ink in 2005 and 2006 for growth in 2007 to 389,000 tons, less than the previous year 1.3%. Shipped 436,000 tons and reduce 0.1%, shipments amounted to 299,600,000,000 yen, reducing the 0.4%. Among them, lithography ink in the 2002-2006 inter-annual growth in 2007 to 170,000 tons, less than the previous year 0.2%, but the volume of shipments and sales were up slightly. Intaglio printing ink for the production of 132,000 tons, reducing 1.7%, Toppan ink resin for 25,000 tons more than last year by Micro, 13,000 tons of metal ink to reduce the 7.7%. Japan
printing ink is not a big international trade, China is Japan’s largest printing ink trading partners. Japan’s imports of printing ink 2 / 3 over from China, exports to China accounted for 1 / 6 and above.
Japanese exports printing ink has been going on for 12 years, growth in 2007 was 43,901 tons higher than last year 1.5%. China is Japan’s largest printing ink export market, in 2007 Japan’s exports to China amounted to 7490 tons, an increase of 0.8%. U.S. exports to amounted to 6357 tons and reduce 1.9%, exports to Europe amounted to 3588 tons and reduce 7.9%, South Korea’s exports to the capacity of 1886 tons, an increase of 14.1%.
2002 years to 2006, Japan’s import volume of printing ink rising year after year, but in 2007 reduced the 7%, to 5792 tons. Of which imports from China amounted to 4197 tons, an increase of 2.2%, Japan accounted for printing ink, the import volume of 72.5%. Imported from other countries in the printing ink, are decreased, as imports from the United States declined by 26.7%, from South Korea’s imports decreased by 30%, imports from Europe declined by 17.5%.
