---
status: not_available
error: "Source site (www.meti.go.jp) is reachable (ping 1ms) but curl/wget commands hang indefinitely, likely due to WAF/Akamai blocking or rate limiting the sandbox IP."
group_key: 403656
date_searched: 2026-03-31T00:00:15Z
urls_tried:
  - https://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/syoudou/index.html
  - https://www.meti.go.jp/statistics/tyo/syoudou/index.html
  - https://www.meti.go.jp/statistics/tyo/syoudou/result/pdf/202602S.pdf
---

# Source Document Not Available

The source document for the **Preliminary Report on the Current Survey of Commerce (February 2026)** could not be retrieved from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

**Reason:** 
The official source domain `www.meti.go.jp` is reachable via ICMP (ping), but all attempts to fetch content via `curl` (including various User-Agents, headers, and resolve flags) timed out or hung. This is consistent with a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Akamai edge protection blocking the automated requests from this environment.

**Indicators requested:**
- Retail Sales YoY (Japan, Feb 2026)
- Expected: -0.2%
- Previous: 1.8%
- Forecast: 0.8%

**Release Date:** 2026-03-31 08:50 JST (2026-03-30 23:50 UTC).

The metadata in the triggering payload provides the key figures (Actual: -0.2%), but the full narrative text or PDF outline from METI is currently inaccessible via the direct fetch tool.