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APRIL KEY FIGURES

	February 2009	March 2009	April 2009
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	628	755	671
Beverages and tobacco	110	145	142
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	138	157	124
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	1 999	1 851	1 888
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	40	49	46
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 816	2 040	1 996
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 859	1 972	1 754
Machinery and transport equipment	5 253	6 615	5 988
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 060	2 429	2 378
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	2 630	1 299	1 239
TOTAL	16 531	17 314	16 228

• In original terms, the April 2009 merchandise imports were $16,228m, a decrease of $1,086m (6%) on the revised March 2009 merchandise imports of $17,314m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis decreased by $388m (2%) in seasonally adjusted terms from $17,657m in March 2009 to $17,269m in April 2009. Other goods fell $463m (35%) with non-monetary gold down $305m (32%), capital goods fell $47m (1%) and consumption goods fell $38m (1%). Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $160m (2%) with other merchandise goods up $151m.