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Trade surplus shrinks 44% in first half
(The Japan Times Online)
July 24, 2001
The nation's customs-cleared merchandise trade surplus shrank 44 percent from a year earlier to 3.19 trillion yen for the first half of calendar 2001 as imports outgrew exports, the Finance Ministry said Monday.
The figure represents the fifth straight fall on a half-year basis and the sharpest in postwar history, the ministry said in a preliminary report.
The trade surplus in June alone came to 761.7 billion yen, ...... Read more on The Japan Times Online
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