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Japan's trade deficit surged nearly 70 percent to a record 13.75 trillion yen ($134 billion) in the last fiscal year, the third straight year of deficit, as exports failed to keep pace with surging energy costs.

A survey finds that most companies saw little fall-off in sales in the first 14 days of a higher tax regime in Japan

Trade chiefs of Japan and the United States continued to seek progress Thursday in protracted negotiations over tariff exceptions to a Pacific free trade pact. Akira Amari, Japan’s minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative, and Michael Froman, U.S. trade representative, discussed a full range of sticking points following ...

Consumer confidence fell in March to the lowest level since August 2011, and the government cut its economic assessment for the first time in 17 months, as the April 1 consumption tax hike sapped the public’s spending power. The reading of 37.5, down from 38.5 in February, was released by ...

Companies have mostly responded to the Abenomics-led upturn by ramping up their employment of part-timers rather than by increasing permanent staff

Secondo le statistiche doganali giapponesi, l'Italia ha concluso lo scorso anno con esportazioni record verso il Giappone per 930,8 miliardi di yen, con un progresso del 21,8%, mentre il paese del Sol Levante ha esportato nel nostro Paese beni per 319,3 miliardi di yen (+9,3%). Il saldo e' stato tra ...

  ROMA\ nflash\ - Promuovere all'estero la sostenibilità, la qualità e il legame con i territori che caratterizza il mercato dei prodotti biologici italiani, un segmento che, nonostante la crisi, vede incrementarsi il proprio giro d'affari. Con questo obiettivo, il Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico ha deciso di puntare su due realtà ...

UAE was Japan’s top export destination for motor vehicles among the GCC countries and the sixth largest export market in the world

Japan’s minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks said Friday he will meet with his U.S. counterpart in Washington next week as they accelerate efforts to resolve outstanding issues before the Japan-U.S. summit later this month. Akira Amari and Michael Froman decided to hold talks again after ...

The prize of uniting a dozen Pacific Rim countries in one trade zone is still out of reach as disagreements remain on agricultural produce duties

U.S. beef shipments to Japan may drop after the largest Asian buyer inked a deal with Australia to begin reducing import tariffs as early as next year, the agriculture ministry said. Japan agreed to gradually lower tariffs on imports of frozen beef from Australia to 19.5 percent and cut duties ...

The International Monetary Fund cut its annual growth forecast for Japan on Tuesday, singling out the country as the only major advanced economy to have its growth projections cut. Fallout from the April 1 consumption tax hike was cited as the reason for the revision. In its World Economic Outlook ...

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and a top Japanese official say they still hope to bridge significant differences over opening markets under an ambitious pan-Pacific trade pact.

Japanese and U.S. trade chiefs met Wednesday to discuss outstanding bilateral issues related to the ongoing Pacific trade talks — striving to break the stalemate in negotiations ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Tokyo in just two weeks. Akira Amari, Japan’s minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...

Years of lacklustre markets in Japan have seen the number of foreign companies traded in Tokyo drop from a peak of 127 in 1991 to just a dozen now

The U.S. trade chief said Tuesday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative aims at a higher level of trade liberalization than the accord reached by Japan and Australia, playing down the impact of the bilateral agreement on the broader TPP negotiations. “I don’t think it (the Japan-Australia free trade agreement) has ...

MUCH-VAUNTED benefits such as cheaper cars may not result from a new trade deal with Japan but cheaper washing machines could be on the way.

IT is too early to know what benefits the Japanese trade agreement will have for consumers and the economy.

Australia and Japan have sealed a bilateral trade deal giving Australian farmers much greater access to one of Asia’s biggest markets

Deal to phase out steep tariffs on Australian beef, Japanese-made vehicles

AUSTRALIA has concluded a landmark free trade deal with Japan, slashing barriers for exporters.