CROATIA'S GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT INCREASES BY 10%

ZAGREB, March 27 (Hina) - Croatia's 1996 gross domestic product rose by a little more than ten per cent as against 1995, Deputy Prime Minister Borislav Skegro told reporters after a government session on Thursday. According to the latest data published by the Payment Operations Office, industrial output has seen a continual rise in the last 17 months. February industrial production was up two per cent in comparison with the same month last year. Skegro said that exports and imports had increased in the first two months of this year, and that the trade deficit was lower than in the same period last year. (hina) vm jn 271649 MET mar 97