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Supply chains and manufacturing: Argentina and Japan

First country

Second country

In 2025, Argentina sold USD 1.3 million of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel to Japan and bought USD 910 million from it.

Benefits

  • BothTwo-way trade in machinery, vehicles and iron and steel grew 84 percent, from USD 496 million in 2019 to USD 912 million in 2025.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, Japan sold USD 910 million of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel, against USD 1.3 million the other way.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

Argentina's imports from Japan: machinery, vehicles and iron and steel

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by Argentina

2019: 493.9Low 404 / High 910.42025: 910.4

2019493.9
2020404
2021711.7
2022750.4
2023808.8
2024779.1
2025910.4

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

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