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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1980
LAST MONTH
DOMESTIC EXPORTS
(% OF TOTAL EXPORTS)
5. 602 (74.8%)
JANUARY
1980
$ MN.
4 997 (70.9%)
DECEMBER 1979
$ MN.
INCREASE OR DECREASE
$ MN.
%
605
-
10.8
RE-EXPORTS
2 047
1 891
156
8.3
TOTAL EXPORTS
7 044
7 493
449
6.0
IMPORTS
8 132
8 328
195
-
2.3
TRADE BALANCE
1 088
835
253
LAST 12 MONTHS
FEBRUARY 1979
TO JANUARY 1980
FEBRUARY 1978
TO JANUARY 1979
INCREASE OR
DECREASE
$ MN.
S MN.
$ MN.
R
DOMESTIC EXPORTS
57 070
41 829
+15 241
+ 36.4
RE-EXPORTS
20 741
13 643
+ 7 097
+ 52.0
TOTAL EXPORTS
77 811
55 472
+22 339
+ 40.3
IMPORTS
88 569
64 168
+24 401
+ 38.0
TRADE BALANCE
10 758
- 8 696
- 2 062
79 BUILDING PLANS APPROVED IN JANUARY ******
A TOTAL OF 79 NEW BUILDING PLANS WERE APPROVED LAST MONTH (JANUARY) BY THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, COMPARED WITH 70 IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR.
OF THESE, 29 WERE FOR BUILDINGS ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 12 FOR KOWLOON, AND 38 FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THEY INCLUDED PLANS FOR AN ELECTRICITY SUB-STATION AT HAMMER HILL, A MEMORIAL HALL IN FANLING AND A NUMBER OF HIGH-RISE APARTMENT/COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS.
THE TOTAL DECLARED COST OF NEW BUILDINGS COMPLETED DURING THE MONTH WAS $427.65 MILLION, COMPARED WITH $198.02 MILLION IN THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR.
THE TOTAL USABLE FLOOR AREA OF NEW BUILDINGS COMPLETED LAST MONTH AMOUNTED TO 279 398.7 SQUARE METRES, COMPRISING 128 097.9 SQUARE METRES OF NON-DOMESTIC FLOOR AREA AND 151 300.8 SQUARE METRES OF DOMESTIC FLOOR AREA.
/DURING THE