{"id":718820,"date":"2026-07-30T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:37:22","slug":"trade-deficits-for-japan-philippines-widen-amid-ai-boom-and-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718820\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade deficits for Japan, Philippines widen amid AI boom and Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/trade\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Rising oil prices pressure trade balances and currencies across Asia<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260730 Wafer and iran\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Statistics show that there is\u00a0a divide in Asia\u00a0between economies reaping the full benefit of tech export growth and those that cannot fully offset the negative impact\u00a0of high energy prices. (Source photos by Yuki Nakao and Reuters)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan logged a trade deficit for the second consecutive month in June, while the Philippines saw its monthly deficit widen, according to government statistics released by the two countries on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade Rising oil prices pressure trade balances and currencies across Asia Statistics show that there is\u00a0a divide in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[554,76634,84,237829,1294,585,386,10784,426,56,54,55,636,237830],"class_list":["post-718820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-boom","tag-business","tag-deficits","tag-economy","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-philippines","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war","tag-widen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}