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Fastener Trade Statistics of USA /Canada / Japan / Taiwan in 2018
by Nai Wen Chang, Fastener World

Fastener Trade Statistics of USA in
Q1-3 2018
Note: As the relevant full-year data for USA wasn’t
released before this article was finished, thefollowing graphs will only show the trends in2014-2017, while the trend for Q1-3 2018 will beexplained in text for reference.
U.S. fast ener expor t va lue i n Q1-3 2018 was US$
3,292,716,850. However, the top export destinations seemto have not changed a lot since 2016 and the top export
destination was still Mexico (US$ 1,133,069,153), followedby Canada in the 2nd (US$ 850,779,269) and China in the3rd (US$ 156,520,609). The trend grew steadily in 20142017; the 4th place was UK (US$ 129,760,115); the 5thplace was Germany (US$ 88,706,043); the 6th place wasFrance (US$ 82,092,787); Brazil, which was once a blackhorse in 2016, dropped to the 7th place (US$ 72,663,822);
the 8th place was Singapore (US$ 71,772,402); the 9thplace was Japan (US$ 69,986,419); the 10th was S. Korea(US$ 63,958,188). Tables 1 & 2 show the export trend in2014-2017.
Top 10 import origins of USA in Q1-3 2018 basicallyalmost had not changed a lot since 2014. The top 1 was still
Taiwan (US$ 1,358,728,753); the 2nd place was China (US$1,100,377,535); the 3rd place was Japan (US$ 465,969,385);
the 4th place was Germany (US$ 243,571,696); the 5thplace was Canada (US$ 231,018,431); the 6th place was S.
Korea showing a significant decline (US$ 137,214,577);
the 7th place was Italy (US$ 115,777,430); the 8th wasMexico (US$ 88,617,997); the 9th place was India (US$83,720,789); the 10th place was France (US$ 63,517,114).
Tables 3 & 4 show the export trend in 2014-2017.

Fastener Trade Statistics of Canada
in the First 10 Months of 2018
Note: As the relevant full-year data for Canada
wasn’t released before this article wasfinished, the following graphs will only show
the trends in 2014-2017, while the trend forthe first 10 months of 2018 will be explained intext for reference.
The total export value of Canada in the first 10 monthsof 2018 was US$ 407,524,640. Tables 5 & 6 show theincrease of 10.2% from the same period of 2017; the topfastener export destination was USA (US$ 329,693,816);
the 2nd place was Mexico (US$ 14,792,470, which is higher
than the full year export value of 2017, and which shows anincrease of 37.4% from the same period of 2017); the 3rdplace was UK (US$ 7,508,116, which was still down 13.7%from 2017); the 4th place was China (US$ 6,979,303); theIndustry Focus

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5th place was Germany (US$ 5,591,945); the 6th place wasFrance (US$ 4,104,716); the 7th place was Denmark, which
was in the 10th in 2017 (US$ 3,928,259, up 72.5% from thesame period in 2017); the 8th place was Singapore (US$3,086,529); the 9th was Netherlands, which was not in thetop 10 in 2017 (US$ 2,011,912); the 10th place was Poland(US$ 1,912,897, down 29.4% from the same period of 2017)) ; Russia, which was in the 9th and showed mild growth in2017 was not in the top 10 anymore in 2018.
The total fastener import value of Canada in the first 10months of 2018 was US$ 1,384,605,388, up 9.5% from thesame period of 2017; the top import origin was USA (US$684,569,496); the 2nd place was Taiwan (US$ 206,814,078,up 17.4% from the same period of 2017); the 3rd place wasChina (US$ 180,353,381, up 29.4% from the same periodof 2017); the 4th place was Japan (US$ 56,664,242); the5th place was Germany (US$34,787,122), which showed
continuous decline from 2014 to 2016 until 2017; the 6thplace was S. Korea (US$27,276,713, down 11.2% fromthe same period of 2017); the 7th place was Italy (US$26,314,523, up 24.7% from the same period of 2017); the8th place was Vietnam (US$ 23,514,432, up 31.2% from thesame period of 2017), which was not in the top 10 in 2017;
the 9th place was Re-import of Canada (US$ 23,497,846);
the 10th place was UK (US$ 21,686,792). Tables 7 & 8show the import trend in 2014-2017.

Fastener Trade Statistics of Japanin 2018
Tables 9 & 10 show that the full-year fastener export
value of Japan in 2018 was 304,329,591 thousand yens.
The top export destination was China (72,119,406 thousandyens), which outpaced USA in 2017; the 2nd largest wasUSA (67,588,415 thousand yens), a slight decline from 2017;
the 3rd largest was Thailand (40,174,041 thousand yens);
the 4th largest was Indonesia (23,327,952 thousand yens);
the 5th largest was Mexico, which had continued to drop
since 2016 and reached 12,029,569 thousand yens in 2018;
the 6th largest was India (10,655,908 thousand yens), which
had continued to grow since 2016; the 7th largest was UK(7,356,378 thousand yens), which slightly declined from2017; the 8th largest was Brazil (6,852,067 thousand yens);
the 9th largest was Turkey (4,849,730 thousand yens); the10th largest was the Philippines (4,752,921 thousand yens).
The full-year fastener import value of Japan in 2018 was110,681,834 thousand yens; Tables 11 &12 show that the top
5 import origins remained the same. The top import origin
was China (44,174,619 thousand yens), showing a slightdecline from 2017; the 2nd largest was Taiwan (26,292,510thousand yens), showing a slight decline from 2017; the 3rdlargest was USA (16,281,782 thousand yens); the 4th largest
was S. Korea (5,203,584 thousand yens); the 5th largest
was Thailand (3,342,925 thousand yens); the 6th largest
was Vietnam (3,067,194 thousand yens), which has shown
significant growth since 2014; the 7th largest was Germany(2,826,508 thousand yens), a slight decline from 2017; the8th largest was Malaysia (1,853,913 thousand yens), whichshowed growth in both 2017 and 2018; the 9th largest wasUK (1,332,673 thousand yens), which was ranked the 8thin 2017, but showed a slump in 2018; the 10th largest wasSwitzerland (894,862 thousand yens).

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Fastener Trade Statistics of Taiwan
in the First 10 Months of 2018
Note: As the relevant full-year data for Taiwan wasn’treleased before this article was finished, thefollowing graphs will only show the trends
in 2014-2017, while the trend for the first 10months of 2018 will be explained in text forreference.
The total export value of the first 10 months of2018 was US$ 3,865,786,179 and the total export
volume was 1,328,870,066 KG. Tables 13-15 showthat the top 5 export destinations still remained thesame in 2018. The top export destination in the first10 months of 2018 was USA (US$1,455,290,809,514,795,619 KG); the 2nd largest was Germany (US$380,724,572, 130,228,631 KG); the 3rd largest wasNetherlands (US$ 227,391,990, 80,716,450 KG); the4th largest was Japan (US$ 195,521,564, 58,519,476KG); the 5th largest was UK (US$147,982,394,49,267,753 KG); t he 6t h la rgest was Ca nada
(US$137,785,020, 51,473,546 KG); the 7th largest
was China (US$ 122,581,887, 20,245,489 KG); the8th largest was Italy (US$ 89,511,724, 34,980,089
KG; the 9th largest was Sweden (US$ 81,279,768,24,926,930 KG); the 10th largest was Mexico (US$77,048,904, 25,356,937 KG).

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Tables 16-18 show that Taiwan’s import in thefirst 10 months of 2018 was US$130,064,686
and the import volume was 13,488,181 KG; thetop import origin was Japan (US$ 54,457,305,4,672,803 KG); the 2nd largest was USA (US$20,660,224, 261,923 KG); the 3rd largest wasGermany (US$ 8,891,648, 321,242 KG); the 4thlargest was China (US$ 7,549,048, 2,469,674 KG);
the 5th largest was Unspecified Countries (US$5,807,367, 1,099,917 KG); the 6th largest wasS. Korea (US$ 4,274,835, 279,197 KG); the 7thlargest was Vietnam (US$ 3,246,193, 1,996,498KG); the 8th largest was Italy (US$ 1,888,886,97,527 KG); the 9th largest was the Philippines(US$ 3,140,130, 948,142 KG); the 10th largestwas Switzerland (US$ 2,022,923, 63,424 KG).