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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

	October 2010	November 2010	December 2010
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	777	812	762
Beverages and tobacco	167	161	175
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	222	239	212
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 231	2 556	3 004
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	48	45	50
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 952	1 912	1 845
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 917	1 934	1 836
Machinery and transport equipment	6 977	7 559	6 914
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 520	2 584	2 240
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	837	1 351	1 108
TOTAL	17 648	19 152	18 146

• In original terms, the December 2010 merchandise imports were $18,146m, a decrease of $1,006m (5%) on the November 2010 merchandise imports of $19,152m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms decreased $874m (5%). In seasonally adjusted terms goods debits increased $238m (1%) from $17,672m in November 2010 to $17,910m in December 2010. Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $642m (8%) with the fuels and lubricants component up $426m (17%) and the other merchandise goods component up $169m. Non-monetary gold fell $201m (34%), capital goods fell $155m (4%) and consumption goods fell $49m (1%).