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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has said domestic B to B-EC (business-to-business e-commerce) market for 2012 (transactions ia computer network systems using Internet technologies) expanded to 178 trillion yen, up 4.1% against the previous year's level. Transactions using conventional EDI included, the market grew 1.7% on year to 262 trillion yen.
The scale of the domestic B to C-EC (business-to-consumer e-commerce) market also expanded in 2012 to 9.5 trillion yen, up 12.5% year on year.
The purchase amount in trans-boundary e-commerce by Japanese consumers from U.S. and Chinese business operators was 15.5 billion yen (106.9% against the previous year's level), while that by U.S. consumers from Japanese and Chinese business operators was 75.7 billion yen (70.4% against the previous year's level) and that by Chinese consumers from Japanese and U.S. business operators was 286.8 billion yen (123.0% against the previous year's level).
The estimated scale of trans-boundary e-commerce among Japan, the U.S. and China as of 2020 is around 2.3 trillion yen at the largest, suggesting significant future potential, the METI said.
