Japan's June Crude Oil Imports Decline 0.9 Percent, Finance Ministry Says

(Bloomberg) -- Imports of crude oil by Japan, the
world's largest consumer of oil after the U.S. and China, fell
0.9 percent in June from a year earlier.

The country brought in 19.1 million kiloliters (120.1
million barrels) of oil last month, the Ministry of Finance said
in a trade report released in Tokyo today. By value, oil imports
rose 6.2 percent to 983 billion yen ($8.2 billion), the ministry
said.


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