The nation posted a goods trade deficit for the fifth straight month in August, the government said Thursday, partly reflecting a drop in exports to China amid a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.
The deficit in value terms shrank 40.2 percent from a year earlier to ¥569.7 billion as imports were pushed down by lower crude oil prices, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report.
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