Japan exports and imports for the first 10 and the first 20 days of the month (MoF, customs clearance, provisional) release schedule and API

Q: When is the next Japan exports and imports for the first 10 and the first 20 days of the month (MoF, customs clearance, provisional) release?

2026-11-26 23:50 UTC, 08:50 local (UTC+09:00), according to the Ministry of Finance Japan release calendar as of 2026-11-13.

Q: How fast is Japan exports and imports for the first 10 and the first 20 days of the month (MoF, customs clearance, provisional) available by API?

Over the last 30 days the median time from Ministry of Finance Japan publishing to the data being on the Econfeed feed was 2.4 s across 1 release(s).

Ministry of Finance Japan. Source: Trade Statistics of Japan, Ministry of Finance (https://www.customs.go.jp/toukei/info/index_e.htm). Licence: PDL-1.0 (CC-BY-4.0 compatible).

Next releases

Release	UTC	Agency local time
Exports and imports, first 10 days of the month	2026-11-26 23:50 UTC	08:50 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, first 20 days of the month	2026-12-07 23:50 UTC	08:50 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, first 10 days of the month	2026-12-24 23:50 UTC	08:50 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, first 20 days of the month	2027-01-07 23:50 UTC	08:50 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, first 10 days of the month	2027-01-27 23:50 UTC	08:50 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, first 20 days of the month	2027-02-04 23:50 UTC	08:50 local (UTC+09:00)

From the agency's own calendar, as of 2026-11-13. Reschedules and cancellations are in the API.

How fast it reaches the API

Release	Measured	Median	Fastest	Slowest	Missed
d20	1	2.4 s	2.4 s	2.4 s	0

Time from the agency publishing to the data being on our feed, for releases caught live in the last 30 days. Every release counts, including slow ones and misses.

Get it by API

Series ids: JP.TRADE_BALANCE_D20.TOTAL.NSA, JP.EXPORTS_D20.TOTAL.NSA.

# pip install econfeed-client
from econfeed_client import Client

ef = Client()  # ECONFEED_API_KEY from the environment
for e in ef.calendar(days=90, source="jp_mof_trade10d"):
    print(e.scheduled_at, e.release_name, e.reference_period)

# add as_of= for what was known then
page = ef.observations("JP.TRADE_BALANCE_D20.TOTAL.NSA", start="2024-01")

# pushed seconds after release
for ev in ef.stream(sources=["jp_mof_trade10d"]):
    print(ev.type, ev.data.release_id)

REST: GET /v1/calendar?source=jp_mof_trade10d, GET /v1/series/JP.TRADE_BALANCE_D20.TOTAL.NSA/observations. Webhooks: filter on source jp_mof_trade10d.