Japan's current account surplus in the first half of fiscal 2020 plummeted to the lowest level in over five years, as exports and inbound travelers sharply decreased amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Tuesday.
The surplus in the current account, one of the widest gauges of international trade, fell 36.2% from a year earlier to ¥6.69 trillion ($64 billion) in the April-September period, the smallest since the ¥5.89 trillion logged in the second half of fiscal 2014, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report.
Still, it marked the 13th straight six-month period in the black.