Tokyo (ap)-Japan's biggest ever half-yearly trade deficit as export weaken and fuel imports surged to keep most of the reactor, and at last the idle power after nuclear crisis.
The Treasury announced on Wednesday for the first half of 2.9 trillion yen ($37.4 billion) in the trade deficit. The deficit is the same period last year of the report of the size of the deficit three times. In the first half of last year fell2.5 exports %, while imports rose 13.1%.
The latest trade deficit is the biggest, because Japan in 1979 to prepare these records.
Until earlier this month, Japan's work all 50 of nuclear reactors, after offline, in March of 2011 established the massive earthquake and tsunami that nuclear crisis. Two reactors to online, but the country is still must be dependent on oil and natural gas supply electricity.
Export hit the negative impact of the European debt crisis caused from the demand. A strong yen also hurt exports.
Imports surged to import fuel costs on the back of growth, including oil, oil products, natural gas and coal.
Northeastern Japan provide caused by disasters of confusion, but also damage the car and electronic product production export slowdown, although have since recovered.
Japan has managed to maintain a few months in a small trade surplus more than last year.
Earlier this year, the Japanese report for the fiscal year ending march record annual trade deficit.




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