(Shouxun) Recently, the scale of South Korea's trade deficit with China has narrowed, and in the ranking of the trade deficit, Japan surpassed China, and it has become the second largest trade deficit country in South Korea for two consecutive months in June and July for two consecutive months.

Yonhap News Agency reported that the South Korean Ministry of Industry and Commercial Resources issued the "Inlet and Export Trends in July" on Sunday (August 13). In June and July, the scale of South Korea's deficit with the Japanese trade deficit was 1.78 billion US dollars and 1.53 billion US dollars, high, high, high, high, high, highThe trade deficit with China ($ 1.3 billion and $ 1.27 billion).This is the second largest trade deficit country in South Korea after the Middle East.

The information of the South Korean Trade Association shows that from 1983 to 2010 and 2015 to 2021, Japan was the largest trade deficit country in South Korea.Japan has become South Korea's largest trade deficit country.In June and July, the scale of the trade deficit in China converged, and the growth of imported chips (chips) from Japan, etc., the scale of the Japanese trade deficit was super -trade deficit in China.

The trade deficit with China was US $ 3.93 billion in January, shrinking to $ 1.27 billion in July.From Japan's imported chip, it was only US $ 260 million in May, reaching US $ 523 million in June, and US $ 367 million in July.

According to analysis, if the chip industry has recovered in the second half of the year, the amount of imported chips and manufacturing equipment in Japan will increase, and the scale of the trade deficit in Japan may be expanded once.