TOKYO: Japan’s trade deficit for July narrowed 6.6 percent from a year earlier, data showed on Wednesday, with exports picking up on rising demand for cars and machinery.
But the shortfall was still worse than market expectations, and analysts said domestic consumption—rather than export demand—was likely to be the key economic driver in the second half of the year.
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