# Belgium exports to Japan: Trade Route Risk | Yugalinks

Understand reported exports from Belgium to Japan, the product routes that need a closer look, and the conditions that may affect planning.

Canonical: https://www.yugalinks.com/trade/corridor/BEL-JPN/risk

## Route overview

In 2024, Belgium reported $2.9B in goods exports to Japan. The overall review level is Critical attention.

## How to read this page

High attention means one or more conditions on these product types deserve a closer look. It is not a prediction that trade will stop or that a loss is certain. An HS6 code is the international six-digit code used to describe and compare traded goods.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value | What it means |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Latest reported exports | $2.9B | 2024 route total |
| Exports needing review | 68.6% | Share of route exports |
| Highest-priority products | 11 | Need the closest review |
| Products needing review | 159 | High-attention product types |
| Export volatility | 1.2 | Higher means bigger yearly swings |
| Below highest year | 51.5% | Compared with the route's best year |

## Product types to review

| Rank | HS6 | Product | Buyer-market imports | Below product high | Review level |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | 300220 | Vaccines: for human medicine | $1.4B | 86.8% | Critical attention |
| 2 | 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.s. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $11.8B | 47.2% | Watch |
| 3 | 300215 | Blood, human or animal, antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products: immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | $8.7B | 34.5% | Watch |
| 4 | 710239 | Diamonds: non-industrial, (other than unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted), but not mounted or set | $575.5M | 70.9% | Critical attention |
| 5 | 293499 | Nucleic acids and their salts, other heterocyclic compounds, n.e.c. in heading number 2934 | $994.1M | 85% | Critical attention |
| 6 | 200410 | Vegetable preparations: potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen | $647.2M | 6.8% | High attention |
| 7 | 870323 | Vehicles: spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine, cylinder capacity exceeding 1500cc but not exceeding 3000cc | $2.5B | 82.4% | Critical attention |
| 8 | 300390 | Medicaments: (not containing antibiotics, hormones, alkaloids or their derivatives), for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, (not packaged for retail sale) | $382.9M | 0% | High attention |
| 9 | 300432 | Medicaments: containing corticosteroid hormones, their derivatives or structural analogues (but not containing antibiotics), for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $428.5M | 34.1% | High attention |
| 10 | 300439 | Medicaments: containing hormones (but not insulin), adrenal cortex hormones or antibiotics, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $1.8B | 68.4% | High attention |

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-29). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

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