Surplus doubled the amount of Japan's merchandise trade surplus increased substantially last year - International Finance - gold in the online

 8 Japanese Finance Ministry's international balance of payments statistics published report shows that Japan's merchandise trade surplus last year, nearly 8 trillion yen, almost double the previous year, compared with 98% surge in 2009, two consecutive years of goods trade surplus growth. Among them, the exports amounted to 63.9 trillion yen, up 25.7% over the previous year for the first 3 years are up; imports amounted to 55.9 trillion yen, an increase of 19.4%.

Although last year from Japan to reduce balance of payments surplus items, but the service trade balance deficit narrowed, the merchandise trade balance surplus increased significantly, including trade in goods and services, income payments, etc., Japan current account surplus of 17.1 trillion yen, up 28.5% over the previous year, the first increase for 3 years.