Japan's imports of Japanese products are declining due to the boycotting movement triggered by the economic provocation of Japan.

Last month, Japanese beer imports dropped by 45 percent compared to deliveries, while passenger car imports fell by 34 percent from a year ago.

On the same day, according to the import trends of items such as beer and passenger cars submitted by the Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Jung-woo from the Korea Customs Service last month, Japanese beer imports fell 45.1 percent from $ 790,000 to $ 43.42 million.

As summer is nearer, the consumption of beer increases and imports also increase. Japanese beer imports continue to increase from $ 5,158,000 in April to $ 5,948,000 in May and $ 790,000 in June. In July, .

Beer imports fell 34.6 percent from July last year ($ 6,639,000).

Compared with the previous July imports, Japan's beer consumption has fallen sharply due to the 2011 earthquake and subsequent nuclear explosion, which is below 2015 (US $ 5.20 million), which began to recover.

Beer has been identified as a major target of boycotts in Japan, and is being removed from sales outlets such as marts and convenience stores.

Large-scale marts and convenience stores are dropping Japanese beer or stopping new orders at imported beer discount events.

In addition, passenger cars, another "target" of Japanese boycotts, fell 34.1 percent from the same month last year ($ 978 million) to $ 65,573,000 in July.

This is 17.2 percent less than the $ 73,038,000 delivered.

An automobile industry official said, "If a car is purchased, it will be time-consuming to get it from the factories after it is inspected and actually imported," he said. "If the time passes, you will know the aftermath of the boycott."

According to the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association, the number of newly registered Japanese-brand passenger cars decreased by 17.2 percent from the same month last year (3,229 units) and 32.2 percent from the previous month (3,946 units).

The Korea Customs Service (KCS) has designated the top 10 import items for passenger cars and manages statistics separately.

In addition to passenger cars, these items are machinery, semiconductor, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, precision equipment, scrap metal, automobile parts, information communication equipment, petroleum products and gas.

Among them, in July, imports of automobiles decreased from the same month last year, the semiconductor manufacturing equipment amounted to $ 275,559 thousand, 42.6 percent, petroleum products $ 41,440 thousand, Down 22.3 percent from a year earlier.

Gas ($ 13.33 million) and semiconductor ($ 388.1 million) were up 100.6% and 4.3%, respectively.

An official from the Korea Customs Service said, "The impact of the Japanese boycott seems to have reduced the amount of related consumer goods imports." This is a preliminary estimate, and accurate statistics will be released after 15 days. "

(yunhap news)