# Sri Lanka exports to Japan: Trade Route Risk | Yugalinks

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

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

## Route overview

In 2024, Sri Lanka reported $200.4M in goods exports to Japan. The overall review level is High 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 | $200.4M | 2024 route total |
| Exports needing review | 60.3% | Share of route exports |
| Highest-priority products | 0 | Need the closest review |
| Products needing review | 31 | High-attention product types |
| Export volatility | 0.8 | Higher means bigger yearly swings |
| Below highest year | 34.8% | Compared with the route's best year |

## Product types to review

| Rank | HS6 | Product | Buyer-market imports | Below product high | Review level |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | 890590 | Vessels: light, fire-floats, floating cranes and other vessels, the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function, floating docks | $31.4M | 0% | High attention |
| 2 | 090240 | Tea, black: (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content exceeding 3kg | $84.6M | 45.2% | Watch |
| 3 | 090230 | Tea, black: (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content not exceeding 3kg | $44.4M | 22.2% | Watch |
| 4 | 230230 | Bran, sharps and other residues: of wheat, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other workings thereof | $18.4M | 38.8% | High attention |
| 5 | 401511 | Rubber: vulcanised (other than hard rubber), surgical gloves | $197.9M | 5.4% | High attention |
| 6 | 140490 | Vegetable products: n.e.s. in chapter 14 | $613.2M | 29.3% | High attention |
| 7 | 030617 | Crustaceans: frozen, shrimps and prawns, excluding cold-water varieties, in shell or not, smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking: in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water | $1.2B | 86.9% | High attention |
| 8 | 530500 | Coconut, abaca (Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee), ramie and other vegetable textile fibres n.e.c., raw or processed but not spun: tow, noils and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) | $19.0M | 41.4% | High attention |
| 9 | 380210 | Carbon: activated | $138.2M | 27.5% | Watch |
| 10 | 401290 | Rubber: tyres n.e.c. in heading no. 4012 | $30.5M | 21.2% | Watch |

## 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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