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Slowdown slashes trade surplus
(South China Morning Post)
May 22, 2001
JAPAN
Agence France-Presse in Tokyo
The global economic slowdown put the brakes on demand for Japanese exports last month, slashing the trade surplus by 41.6 per cent from a year earlier.
The surplus fell for the 10th month running to stand at 665.9 billion yen (about HK$42 billion) last month, the finance ministry said yesterday.
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