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Nuclear and space: France and Japan

First country

Second country

In 2025, France sold USD 257 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft to Japan.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, France sold USD 257 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft, and Japan sold almost none.
  • BothTwo-way trade in nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft is 45 percent below its 2024 peak of USD 466 million.

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

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

France's exports to Japan: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

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

2019: 1.6Low 0.3 / High 465.52025: 256.7

20191.6
20200.8
20210.3
2022158.5
2023158.9
2024465.5
2025256.7

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

France's imports from Japan: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

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

2019: 1.9Low 0 / High 42.62025: 0.2

20191.9
202042.6
20211.1
20220.3
20240
20250.2

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

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