{"id":429732,"date":"2026-04-22T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/japan-march-trade-data-surplus-shrinks-imports-and-exports-both-higher-than-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:00:12","slug":"japan-march-trade-data-surplus-shrinks-imports-and-exports-both-higher-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/japan-march-trade-data-surplus-shrinks-imports-and-exports-both-higher-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan March trade data: Surplus shrinks. Imports and exports both higher than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"195\">Japan\u2019s trade balance recorded a surplus of \u00a5667.0B in March (expected \u00a51,106B, prior \u00a557.3B)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>imports increased 10.9% y\/y (exp. 7.1%, prior 10.2%)<\/li>\n<li>exports rose 11.7% y\/y (exp. 11.0%, prior 4.2%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s trade balance recorded a surplus of \u00a5667.0B in March (expected \u00a51,106B, prior \u00a557.3B) imports increased 10.9% y\/y (exp. 7.1%, prior 10.2%) exports rose 11.7% y\/y (exp. 11.0%, prior 4.2%) This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}