{"id":384274,"date":"2025-11-17T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384274\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:40:15","slug":"japans-economy-contracts-as-exports-get-hit-by-us-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384274\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s economy contracts as exports get hit by US tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO — Japan\u2019s economy sank at an annualized rate of 1.8% in the July-September period, government data showed Monday, as President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a> sent the nation\u2019s exports spiraling.<\/p>\n

On a quarter-by-quarter basis, Japan\u2019s gross domestic product, or GDP, or the sum value of a nation\u2019s goods and services, slipped 0.4%, in the first contraction in six quarters, the Cabinet Office said.<\/p>\n

The annualized rate shows what the economy would have done if the same rate were to continue for a year. The fall was still smaller than the 0.6% drop the market had expected. <\/p>\n

A big decline during the quarter came in exports, which were 1.2% down from the previous quarter.<\/p>\n

Some businesses had sped up exports, when they could, to beat the tariffs kicking in, inflating some of the earlier data for exports.<\/p>\n

On an annualized basis, exports dropped 4.5% in the three months through September.<\/p>\n

Imports for the third quarter slipped 0.1%. Private consumption edged up 0.1% during the quarter. <\/p>\n

Tariffs are a major blow to Japan\u2019s export-reliant economy, led by powerful automakers like Toyota Motor Corp.<\/a>, although such manufacturers<\/a> have over the years moved production abroad to avert the blunt of tariffs.<\/p>\n

The U.S. now slaps a 15% tariff on nearly all Japanese imports. Earlier the tariffs were 25%. <\/p>\n

Japan also faced political uncertainty recently, until Sanae Takaichi<\/a> became prime minister in October.<\/p>\n

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Yuri Kageyama is on Threads: https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@yurikageyama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO — Japan\u2019s economy sank at an annualized rate of 1.8% in the July-September period, government data showed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[183620,347,64,2239,12042,79,57,13790,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-384274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-183620","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economic-indicators","12":"tag-economic-policy","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-international-trade","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115562730190453640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}