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Japan Trade Balance, Goods (Monthly, NSA, Ministry of Finance)

million JPY · Monthly · Ministry of Finance, Japan (Trade Statistics, Japan Customs)

MOFJ.JPN.GOODS.BALANCE.M

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Japan goods trade balance: exports (F.O.B.) minus imports (C.I.F.), all countries, million yen, not seasonally adjusted, as the Ministry of Finance publishes it in its Trade Statistics (from January 1979). Release times are unknown.

出典：財務省「貿易統計」 (Ministry of Finance, Japan, Trade Statistics, https://www.customs.go.jp/toukei/), Value of Exports and Imports September 2026 (Exports:Detailed Data;Imports:Provisional(HS-code Basis)), published 2026-10-29, accessed 2026-11-10. Reformatted by Statistics of the World.

Reuse terms: Public Data License 1.0 (PDL1.0, CC BY 4.0 compatible). Effective resale permission: permitted under the provider terms.

Series-wide coverage: 1979-01-01 to 2026-09-01. SOTW publication: 2026-11-10T04:05:12.948212+00:00.

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  "unit": "million JPY",
  "concept": "Goods trade balance: exports valued F.O.B. minus imports valued C.I.F., customs basis",
  "dataset": "Ministry of Finance, Japan: Trade Statistics, value of exports and imports, world total, monthly",
  "selection": {
    "area": "World",
    "flows": "Exp-Total minus Imp-Total",
    "frequency": "M"
  },
  "rights_url": "https://www.customs.go.jp/kyotsu/rules.htm",
  "status_rule": "Only the newest release month is flagged: P while that release title says Provisional (stages 4 and 5). Earlier months carry no status.",
  "balance_rule": "Exports and imports each rounded to the million yen (half up), then subtracted, as the Ministry prints its balance; the newest release printed balance is checked equal.",
  "history_rule": "the monthly world totals file from 1979-01; the newest release month is added from the release on provisional day",
  "rights_scope": "Japan Customs site: Public Data License 1.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible) unless stated; commercial reuse with the source credited.",
  "source_updated": {
    "release_url": "https://www.customs.go.jp/toukei/shinbun/trade-st_e/2026/2026095e.xml",
    "latest_period": "2026-09",
    "release_stage": "5",
    "release_published": "2026-10-29",
    "terms_page_sha256": "2fc7ec983550f2c335af5e13425d909faa784683cf5a0914158e752abdad419f",
    "release_month_from_release": false,
    "actual_source_availability_at": null,
    "original_publisher_release_at": null
  },
  "recomputation_scope": "The totals file carries exports and imports, not the balance, so SOTW subtracts them by the Ministry rounding rule; the newest release month is the Ministry printed balance (checked equal), not a recomputation.",
  "seasonal_adjustment": "not seasonally adjusted",
  "native_values_recomputed": true,
  "private_raw_source_bodies_publicly_redistributed": false
}