UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA

SALESIANA

CARRERA ADMINISTRACION DE
EMPRESAS

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

ECUADOR - JAPAN TRADE RELATIONS

Edison Chavez

Ecuador - Japan Trade Relations

Japan currently for Ecuador, represents the most important

market in Asia, with a population of about 127 million people
characterised by a high power of purchase ($28,700 a year)
but at the same time by a high demand on quality and
presentation of the demanded products.

Ecuador - Japan Trade Relations

Today, Japan is one of the largest importers of food in the world,

main pastime of the Japanese is to dine away from home, which
stimulates the import and consumption of products, the eating
habits of the Japanese determined that that country is a large
importer of seafood and fish. All of this sets up a very important
potential market for Ecuadorian exportable products.

Ecuador - Japan Trade Relations

Trade relations between Japan and Ecuador in recent years

have developed significantly, causing positive effects in the
Ecuadorian economy, the injection of capital from that country
is significant and it contributes to the development of the
production system in the country.

Ecuador - Japan Total Trade Balance

Ecuador - Japan Trade Relations

Ecuadorian exports to Japan have relatively stable during the

last decade. This dynamism is based on variations of the
exports of traditional products (bananas, fish, shrimp, coffee,
cocoa, wood) before that in an expansion of the range of
Ecuadorian exports.

Ecuador - Japan Trade Relations

Little diversification and concentration of

Ecuadorian exports to Japan is shown to know
that around of 95% of non-oil exports, they belong
to the category of food, among which dominate.
exports of bananas, seafood - shrimp, tuna,
prawns. Other important products are: coffee,
elaborate coffee; fish meal; cocoa and cocoa;
juices
and
fruit
concentrates.
Within the raw materials and industrial products,
include timber exports in gross and industrialized.

Ecuador - Japan Trade Relations

Ecuador - Japan Trade Relations

With regards to imports, Japan is currently the eighth

supplier of Ecuador, passed by the United States,
Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Panama and China,
the 4.23% of total Ecuadorian imports came from Japan,
being mainly imported products: vehicles, tractors and
transport equipment; machinery and parts thereof;
appliances and electrical equipment and parts thereof;
rubber and rubber articles; aluminum and articles thereof;
smelting, iron and steel.

Ecuador - Japan Trade Relations

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