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Feature Article - Goods and Selected Services by Region, 2000-2001


This article was published in International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia (Cat. No. 5368.0) Feb 2002.


INTRODUCTION

1 This article provides summary data, for the 2000-2001 financial year, for Australia's trade in goods and services (excluding travel services) with selected major trading partners, and for Australia's trade in services (excluding travel services) by State. Table F1 presents the trade in goods and services (excluding travel services) credits and debits for 40 countries or country groups for financial year 2000-2001. Tables F2 and F3 show, for credits and debits respectively, Australia's 2000-2001 trade in services (excluding travel services), classified by State, for 10 broad service types with more detailed components also shown.

2 The ABS is currently unable to produce estimates of Australia's trade in travel services by partner country or by State for the financial year 2000-2001. The cause of the problem is the delay in the processing by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) of international airline passenger cards. The ABS uses the passenger card information processed by DIMIA to produce estimates of overseas arrivals and departures (OADs) by residents and non-residents and estimates of travel services by partner country and by State.

3 An implication of the lack of travel services by partner country data is that the aggregate "balance on total trade in goods and services" is currently unavailable by partner country from financial year 2000-2001 onwards.

4 The ABS will compile and release updated travel services by partner country data as soon as possible after receipt of the necessary data from DIMIA. Further information on the expected release of final OADs data will be updated on the Demography Theme page on this site, and in issues of the monthly publication Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia (Cat. no. 3401.0).


GOODS AND SELECTED SERVICES BY COUNTRY


INTERPRETATION OF TRADE DATA BY COUNTRY

5 The quality of statistics of trade in goods and services by country is considered to be good, although there are occasional difficulties due to lack of information or the confidentiality of the trading partners involved. Therefore about 3% of total credits and 2% of total debits shown in table F1 for 2000-2001 remain unallocated. A comprehensive explanation of the data sources used and the methodology applied in the compilation of regional statistics is provided in Chapter 17 of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia - Concepts, Sources and Methods (Cat. no. 5331.0). This publication is located on this site. Appendix A to this article illustrates the types of services covered by the components of other business services.


ANALYSIS OF AUSTRALIAN TRADE WITH SELECTED PARTNER COUNTRIES

6 The Sydney Olympic Games and Paralympic Games impacted on international trade in 2000-2001. A summary of the major impacts of the Games on international accounts was the subject of a feature article, The Sydney Olympic Games Update, contained in the July 2000 issue of this publication.

7 For the financial year 2000-2001, table F1 presents trade in goods and services (excluding travel services) for 40 countries or country groups. It shows that, excluding travel services, Australia's major export trading partners are Japan ($25 billion), United States of America ($16 billion) and Asia n.e.s. ($11 billion). Excluding travel services, Australia's major import trading partners are United States of America ($27 billion), Japan ($17 billion) and Peoples Republic of China ($10 billion).

TABLE F1: GOODS AND SERVICES (EXCLUDING TRAVEL SERVICES) BY SELECTED COUNTRIES AND COUNTRY
GROUPS, 2000-2001
	CREDITS				DEBITS
	Total goods				Total goods
	& services		Services		& services		Services
	(excluding		(excluding		(excluding		(excluding
	travel		travel		travel		travel
	services)	Goods	services)		services)	Goods	services)
Country	$m	$m	$m		$m	$m	$m
Belgium and Luxembourg	1,043	1,012	31		-871	-837	-34
Brunei Darussalam	47	45	2		-353	-353	n.p.
Canada	1,899	1,785	114		-2,036	-1,891	-145
Central America and Caribbean	220	202	18		-369	-369	n.p.
Chile	133	133	0		-100	-79	-21
China, Peoples Republic of	7,150	6,898	252		-10,380	-9,981	-399
Fiji	729	646	83		-397	-257	-140
France	1,200	1,090	110		-2,664	-2,510	-154
Germany	1,815	1,500	315		-7,217	-6,256	-961
Greece	171	166	5		-206	-109	-97
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	4,553	3,942	611		-2,522	-1,377	-1,145
Indonesia	3,416	3,137	279		-3,675	-3,374	-301
Ireland	223	177	46		-1,222	-1,153	-69
Italy	2,144	2,116	28		-3,377	-3,301	-76
Japan	25,250	23,690	1,560		-17,337	-15,570	-1,767
Korea, Republic of	9,483	9,284	199		-5,042	-4,773	-269
Malaysia	2,787	2,521	266		-4,849	-4,234	-615
Mexico	376	375	1		-591	-589	-2
Netherlands	1,857	1,752	105		-1,332	-917	-415
New Zealand	7,917	6,938	979		-5,470	-4,624	-846
Papua New Guinea	1,313	1,059	254		-1,523	-1,475	-48
Philippines	1,573	1,513	60		-571	-518	-53
Russian Federation	285	266	19		-154	-27	-127
Singapore	7,351	6,059	1,292		-5,877	-3,946	-1,931
South Africa	1,334	1,310	24		-951	-887	-64
Sweden	232	185	47		-1,694	-1,638	-56
Switzerland	462	274	188		-2,011	-1,184	-827
Taiwan	6,009	5,943	66		-3,407	-3,368	-39
Thailand	2,411	2,241	170		-3,111	-2,818	-293
United Kingdom	6,424	4,692	1,732		-8,439	-6,401	-2,038
United States of America	16,120	11,750	4,370		-27,254	-22,633	-4,621
Africa n.e.s.	1,759	1,614	145		-236	-165	-71
America n.e.s.	830	732	98		-1,146	-819	-327
Asia n.e.s.	10,802	10,082	720		-8,268	-7,389	-879
Europe n.e.s.	2,923	2,143	780		-3,582	-3,231	-351
Oceania n.e.s.	1,020	932	88		-216	-160	-56
Unallocated	4,513	2,083	2,430		-2,727	-972	-1,755
Total all countries	137,774	120,287	17,487		-141,177	-120,185	-20,992
	COUNTRY GROUPS
APEC	87,435	76,964	10,471		-95,429	-82,874	-12,555
ASEAN	15,871	13,790	2,081		-21,003	-17,725	-3,278
EU	15,661	12,830	2,831		-29,719	-25,657	-4,062
OECD	71,640	61,409	10,231		-90,123	-77,506	-12,617
Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC); Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN); European Union (EU); and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

TABLE F2: AUSTRALIA'S INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES CREDITS BY STATE, 2000-2001
			NSW	Vic.	Qld.	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Australia
			$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m
1 Transportation services			3,438	2,134	1,484	157	747	10	92	0	8,062
2 Travel services			n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	15,366
	Business		n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	1,166
	Personal		n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	14,200
		Education-related	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	4,038
		Other	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	10,162
3 Communication (a)			533	312	206	145	106	28	13	54	1,397
4 Construction services			40	n.p.	3	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0	0	68
5 Insurance services			464	245	0	0	0	0	0	0	709
6 Financial services			423	320	4	0	0	0	0	0	747
7 Computer & information services			626	n.p.	n.p.	18	12	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	797
8 Royalties & licence fees			409	140	n.p.	n.p.	10	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	601
9 Other business services			1,937	719	119	52	108	n.p.	n.p.	13	2,953
	Merchanting		93	60	12	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	185
	Other trade related services		264	27	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	304
	Operational leasing services		n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	16
	Professional services		402	112	17	2	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	553
	Research and development		84	143	n.p.	6	9	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	248
	Architectural, engineering and other technical services		217	153	63	9	39	n.p.	n.p.	4	485
	Agriculture, mining and on-site processing		n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	1	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	29
	Services between affiliated enterprises n.i.e.		670	154	11	5	12	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	852
	Other		199	63	2	3	12	n.p.	n.p.	2	281
	Confidential items - other business services (b)		8	7	14	27	35	n.p.	n.p.	7	.,.
10 Personal, cultural and recreational services			1,186	75	45	56	n.p.	3	n.p.	29	1,420
Audiovisual and related services			1,111	18	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	1,132
Other personal, cultural and recreational services			75	57	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	288
11 Government services n.i.e.			31	10	1	46	17	0	207	421	733
Confidential items (b)			0	115	76	11	12	3	17	5	.,.
Total			n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	32,853

TABLE F3: AUSTRALIA'S INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES DEBITS BY STATE, 2000-2001
			NSW	Vic.	Qld.	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Australia
			$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m
1 Transportation services			-4,942	-3,044	-1,679	-393	-1,130	-40	-124	0	-11,352
2 Travel services			n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	-11,189
	Business		n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	-2,854
	Personal		n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	-8,335
		Education-related	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	-676
		Other	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	-7,659
3 Communication (a)			-599	-483	-303	-129	-161	-41	-17	-33	-1,766
4 Construction services			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5 Insurance services			-843	-35	0	0	0	0	0	0	-878
6 Financial services			-344	-184	0	0	0	0	0	0	-528
7 Computer & information services			-280	-95	-13	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-417
8 Royalties & licence fees			-1,138	-411	-23	-76	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-1,670
9 Other business services			-1,148	-1,292	-168	-115	-257	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-2,988
	Merchanting and other trade related services		-70	-67	-23	n.p.	-32	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-248
	Operational leasing services		-232	-738	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-1,011
	Professional services		-172	-101	-12	-6	-20	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-315
	Research and development		n.p.	-61	0	0	-8	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-83
	Architectural, engineering and other technical services		-143	-71	n.p.	-37	-46	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-343
	Agriculture, mining and on-site processing		n.p.	n.p.	0	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-124
	Services between affiliated enterprises n.i.e.		-430	-180	-27	n.p.	-26	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-674
	Other		-86	n.p.	n.p.	-3	-22	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-190
	Confidential items - other business services (b)		-15	-74	-106	-69	-103	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	.,.
10 Personal, cultural and recreational services			-559	-143	-1	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-767
Audiovisual and related services			-516	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-634
Other personal, cultural and recreational services			-43	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	-133
11 Government services n.i.e.			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-626	-626
Confidential items (b)			0	0	0	-74	-27	-3	-4	-15	.,.
Total			n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	-32,181