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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