In the fiscal year 2022, the average import price of iron ore in Japan amounted to around 16.56 thousand Japanese yen per ton. Iron ore is one of the basic raw materials needed to produce steel, of which Japan is one of the leading producers worldwide.
Average import price of iron ore per ton in Japan from 2014 to 2022
(in 1,000 Japanese yen per ton)
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Average import price of iron ore per ton in Japan from 2014 to 2022
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fiscal years 2014 to 2022; the Japanese fiscal years start on April 1 of the stated year and end on March 31 of the following year
Special properties
cost, insurance, freight (C.I.F.) value
Supplementary notes
100 Japanese yen equal 0.74 U.S. dollars or 0.70 euros as of December 2022. Values before fiscal 2015 are from previous reports. Values have been rounded.
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Nippon Steel. (August 31, 2023). Average import price of iron ore per ton in Japan from 2014 to 2022 (in 1,000 Japanese yen per ton) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 13, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1276271/japan-iron-ore-import-price/
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Nippon Steel. (2023). Average import price of iron ore per ton in Japan from 2014 to 2022 (in 1,000 Japanese yen per ton). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 13, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1276271/japan-iron-ore-import-price/
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