Kuwait's crude oil exports to Japan fell 9.0 percent in November from a year earlier to 8.33 million barrels, or 278,000 barrels per day, up for the first decline in two months, according to the latest report released by the Government agency, "KUNA" reported. Japan is Kuwait's largest oil buyer, taking around 20 percent of its shipments annually. Kuwait supplied 7.2 percent of nation's crude oil in November, compared with 7.0 percent in the same month of last year and 8.1 percent in October this year, the Japanese Natural Resources and Energy Agency, a unit of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, said in a preliminary report. Japan's overall imports of crude oil in the reporting month fell 12.2 percent year-on-year to 115.44 million barrels, with shipments from the Middle East shrinking 9.4 percent to 100.29 million barrels. Imports from the region accounted for 86.9 percent of the total, up 2.6 percentage points from a year before for the first expansion in three months.
