TOKYO William Carvalho Portugal Jersey , Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Japan logged its 26th successive trade deficit in August, with the amount of red ink for the month narrowing slightly from a month earlier to 948.5 billion yen (8.75 billion U.S. dollars), as slumping demand from major economies dragged down export, while falling imports highlighted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's flatlining attempts to fire up domestic demand.
The figures released by the Finance Ministry Thursday in a preliminary report, showed that the run of deficits has been the longest since record keeping began and the figure for August compares to a revised 971.4 billion yen logged at the same time a year ago and has shrank 2.4 percent from a year earlier.
The ministry said exports fell a less-than-expected 1.3 percent from a year earlier to 5,706.0 billion yen Vieirinha Portugal Jersey , with median economists' expecting a drop of 2.6 percent. Imports, meanwhile, declined 1.5 percent to 6,654.5 billion yen in the recording period, marking the first retreat in three months.
The ministry also noted that exports to the United States had fallen 4.4 percent as consumer demand for Japanese automobiles waned. Shipments in the period to the U.S. totaled 1,022.6 billion yen Rui Patricio Portugal Jersey , while those of imports to Japan climbed for a third straight month to 637.1 billion yen, a rise of 10.7 percent.
As for China, the world's second largest economy and Japan's largest trading partner, imports, on a customs cleared basis, retreated 5.5 percent to 1 Ricardo Quaresma Portugal Jersey ,349.9 billion yen and exports to China also dropped off for the first time in 17 months by 0.2 percent to 1,116.0 billion yen, the finance ministry here said.
While up until recently the price of importing fossil fuels to generate thermal power plants as Japan's nuclear reactors remain offline in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, has ensured the trade deficit has remained, even an unseasonably low demand for electricity in August did little to make a dent in August.
In addition, the consumption tax hike in April from five to eight percent Ricardo Carvalho Portugal Jersey , economists here attest, is continuing to take its toll on manufacturing and hence the volume of exports, and, due to Japanese corporations cutting their investment budgets and capital spending both domestically and overseas due to the tax hike, imports have suffered too.
The weak trend of the Japanese yen of late is a blessing and a curse for trade here, as on the one hand exporters can gain from increased competitiveness in global markets and see their profits augmented when repatriated on favorable exchange rates Renato Sanches Portugal Jersey , but conversely, when the yen is comparatively weak versus its major counterparts, import costs can skyrocket, impacting businesses and consumers here.
Abe's plan to boost consumption tax to eventually spur household and corporate capital spending and reenergize the employment market, has, so far Raphael Guerreiro Portugal Jersey , not come to fruition and while the central bank seems content for the time being with the yen's performance in currency markets and their drive to hit a two percent inflation target next year, the bank's chief Haruhiko Kuroda said Tuesday that price stability was important to businesses here and that the bank stood poised to "act without hesitation" if needed.
But on mounting fears from economists that a second tax hike next could throw the nation into a technical recession, based on the fallout from the initial one this April, Kuroda said both economic activity and prices for both tax hikes had been factored into the bank's planning, prior to the first hike this April being implemented, a tacit nod to his compliance with Abe's plans for a second hike in October 2015.
The government projected that trade deficits would narrow this year after posting a record 11 trillion yen deficit in 2013 Rafa Silva Portugal Jersey , but oppositely, deficits have totaled almost eight trillion yen in the first half of this year alone, with the figure for 2014 looking set to hit a new record and a large amount of policy rethinking for the finance ministry and the central bank remains ahead.
Following a slew of lackluster macroeconomic data of late, including Japan's gross domestic product contracting an annualized 7.1 percent in the April to June period, the most since the first quarter of 2009, which has been directly attributed to the sales tax hike Pepe Portugal Jersey , and despite analysts' projections for a rebound this quarter, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) cut its 2014 growth forecast for Japan and the nation must also contend with trade situations overseas.
While Japan's domestic issues are punishing for its trade balance, Rintaro Tamaki, deputy director general at the OECD, was quoted as saying that economic conditions in trade partners have the "biggest effect on Japan's exports."
"Japan's exports won't recover strongly because the global economy is still not as strong as it was before 2007," Tamaki was quoted as saying.
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