← Overview

Strategic Lens

Critical minerals: Japan and Taiwan

First country

Second country

In 2025, Japan sold USD 1.57 billion of critical minerals and metals to Taiwan and bought USD 359 million from it.

Benefits

  • BothTwo-way trade in critical minerals and metals grew 179 percent, from USD 692 million in 2019 to USD 1.93 billion in 2025.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, Japan sold USD 1.57 billion of critical minerals and metals, against USD 359 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

Japan's exports to Taiwan: critical minerals and metals

USD billion · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by Japan

2019: 0.64Low 0.64 / High 1.572025: 1.57

20190.64
20200.86
20211.14
20221.44
20231.27
20241.5
20251.57

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

Japan's imports from Taiwan: critical minerals and metals

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

2019: 56.2Low 56.2 / High 384.72025: 359

201956.2
2020135.9
2021207.5
2022384.7
2023306.8
2024278.3
2025359

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

← Japan and Taiwan