Meanwhile Taiwan's expanding trade surplus helped ROC foreign exchange reserves to rise sharply from US $ 2.2 billion in 1980 to US $ 76.7 billion seven years later; of this, some US $ 20 billion was hot money flowing in in anticipation of NT dollar revaluation.
另一方面，我國對外貿易順差不斷擴大，外匯存底遂由民國六十九年的廿二億美元，七年後激增到七百六十七億美元；其中約二百億左右，是預期新台幣升值而流入套匯的熱錢。