JAPAN MARCH INTERIM TRADE SURPLUS FALLS

  Japan's customs-cleared trade surplus
  fell to 1.89 billion dlrs in the first 10 days of March from a
  1.91 billion surplus a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance
  said.
       The March interim surplus compared with a 1.70 billion dlr
  surplus in the same February period.
       FOB exports in the first 10 days of March rose 5.8 pct
  from a year earlier to 5.50 billion dlrs and CIF imports rose
  9.7 pct to 3.61 billion.
       The average yen/dollar rate used for the statistics was
  153.67 yen against 181.23 a year earlier.
  

