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皇冠体育app outstrips US as Japan's No.1 trade partner

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-19 21:37

TOKYO: 皇冠体育app becomes Japan's biggest trading partner in both exports and imports in the first six months this year, as the global economic downturn affected Japan-US trade more seriously, the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) said Wednesday.

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Exports to 皇冠体育app fell 25.3 percent from a year earlier to $46.5 billion and imports from the country dropped 17.8 percent to $56.2 billion, however, trading with other countries and regions including the United States showed larger declines, JETRO said in its report.

It is the first time exports to 皇冠体育app surpassed those to the United States.

In the January-June period, the trade with 皇冠体育app accounted for 20.4 percent of the total trade volume of Japan, while that with the United States accounted for 13.7 percent and that with South Korea 6.1 percent.

JETRO also projected a decline of Sino-Japanese trade for the whole year of 2009, the first yearly contraction since 1998 Asian financial crisis.