Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

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MAY KEY FIGURES

	March 2010	April 2010	May 2010
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	735	620	633
Beverages and tobacco	139	121	114
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	176	183	164
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 395	2 546	2 328
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	35	44	34
Chemicals and related products, nes	2 065	1 805	1 978
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 966	1 751	1 793
Machinery and transport equipment	7 201	6 542	7 004
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 052	1 962	2 009
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 261	1 224	1 330
TOTAL	18 025	16 798	17 387

• In original terms, the May 2010 merchandise imports were $17,387m, an increase of $589m (4%) on the revised April 2010 merchandise imports of $16,798m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis increased $718m (4%) in seasonally adjusted terms from $17,842m in April 2010 to $18,560m in May 2010. Capital goods rose $383m (9%), consumption goods rose $214m (4%) and intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $182m (2%). Non-monetary gold fell $61m (7%).