{"id":319995,"date":"2025-12-17T10:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=319995"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:00:44","slug":"japan-logged-two-billion-usd-trade-surplus-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=319995","title":{"rendered":"Japan Logged Two Billion USD Trade Surplus In November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOKYO, Dec 17 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Japan recorded a trade surplus of 322.3 billion yen (2 billion U.S. dollars) in November, government data showed today, bolstering expectations for a Bank of Japan (BOJ) rate increase, later this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan&#8217;s exports rose for a third straight month in November, up 6.1 percent year-on-year, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report, as shipments to the United States rebounded for the first time in eight months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imports grew 1.3 percent year-on-year in November, compared with market forecasts for a 2.5 percent increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan&#8217;s economy contracted in the third quarter, after exports weakened, amid the impact of U.S. tariffs. Sentiment has improved following a U.S.-Japan trade agreement formalised in September, which set a baseline 15 percent tariff on nearly all U.S. imports from Japan, down from earlier proposed rates of 27.5 percent, on autos and 25 percent on most other goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With tariff concerns easing, the BOJ is widely expected to raise its short-term policy rate to 0.75 percent, from 0.5 percent, later this week, though the pace of future rate hikes remains uncertain.&#8211; NNN-NHK  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Dec 17 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Japan recorded a trade surplus of 322.3 billion yen (2 billion U.S. dollars) in November, government data showed today, bolstering expectations for a Bank of Japan (BOJ) rate increase, later this week. Japan&#8217;s exports rose for a third straight month in November, up 6.1 percent year-on-year, the Finance Ministry said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":320001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319998,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319995\/revisions\/319998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/320001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}