Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
Japan paper & paperboard flash 2026-08: production 1,720 thousand t (y/y +1.5%), domestic shipments y/y -1.3%, inventory 1,850 thousand t
What the source reported
Source-reportedJapan paper & paperboard production (JPA flash): 1,720 thousand tonnes for 2026-08. Geography: Japan. Paper & paperboard total, thousand tonnes: production 1,720 (y/y +1.5%), total shipments 1,573 (y/y +0.1%), domestic shipments 1,432 (y/y -1.3%), exports 142 (y/y +17.0%), end inventory 1,850 (change vs previous month +147), imports for the previous month 70 (y/y -5.4%).
- Publication
- Japan Paper Association - Monthly Supply-Demand Flash Statistics · Commodity/Energy Organisation
- Published
- 24th September 2026
- Original report
- jpa.gr.jp
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Japan
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 29th September 2026 · 22:08
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Low (18.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (28.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity