Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

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JULY KEY FIGURES

	May 2010	June 2010	July 2010
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	633	733	754
Beverages and tobacco	114	125	135
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	164	175	257
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 224	2 507	2 545
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	34	48	62
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 976	1 886	2 011
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 793	1 873	2 134
Machinery and transport equipment	7 005	7 206	7 233
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 007	2 263	2 359
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 329	1 091	1 247
TOTAL	17 278	17 907	18 736

• In original terms, the July 2010 merchandise imports were $18,736m, an increase of $829m (5%) on the revised June 2010 merchandise imports of $17,907m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis increased $366m (2%) in seasonally adjusted terms from $18,420m in June 2010 to $18,786m in July 2010. Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $682m (8%) with the other merchandise goods component up $465m, and capital goods rose $16m. Non-monetary gold fell $269m (44%) and consumption goods fell $64m (1%).