JAPAN FEBRUARY INTERIM TRADE SURPLUS JUMPS

  Japan's customs-cleared trade surplus in
  the first 20 days of February jumped to 3.58 billion dlrs from
  1.94 billion a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said.
      The February interim surplus was sharply up from a 965.04
  mln dlr surplus in the same January period.
      FOB exports rose 14.6 pct from a year earlier in the first
  20 days of February to 10.91 billion, while CIF imports fell
  3.2 pct to 7.33 billion.
      The average dollar/yen rates were 152.32 for exports and
  152.31 for imports against 196.61 for exports and 196.27 for
  imports a year earlier.
  

