# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第五十五条の十二 (Article 55-12) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-12. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 外国為替及び外国貿易法 (Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act), 昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号 - English title "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五十五条の十二 (Article 55-12)（勧告及び命令） — address `art-55-12` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-12 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十五条の十二（勧告及び命令） — (Issuing Recommendations and Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-12 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、前条の規定による指導又は助言をした場合において、輸出者等がなお輸出者等遵守基準に違反していると認めるときは、当該輸出者等に対し、輸出者等遵守基準を遵守すべき旨の勧告をすることができる。 art-55-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-12/par-1 If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, having issued guidance or advice under the preceding Article, finds the exporter or person conducting similar transactions to be violating the compliance standards for exporters and persons conducting similar transactions, the Minister may issue a recommendation for them to comply with those compliance standards. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, having issued guidance or advice under the preceding Article, finds the exporter or person conducting similar transactions to be violating the compliance standards for exporters and persons conducting similar transactions, the Minister may issue a recommendation for them to comply with those compliance standards ." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb **第二項** 経済産業大臣は、前項の規定による勧告を受けた者がその勧告に従わなかつたときは、当該勧告を受けた者に対し、その勧告に係る措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-55-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-12/par-2 If a person that is issued a recommendation under the preceding paragraph fails to follow the recommendation, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may order that person to take the recommended measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55-12/par-1: 前条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の十一 (Article 55-11), art-55-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-11 - art-55-12/par-2: 前項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の十二第一項 (Article 55-12, paragraph (1)), art-55-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-12/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の十二第二項（勧告及び命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-12/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十一条第一項第十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-71/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-71/par-1/item-11 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法), Article 55-12, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05