INTERSTATE TRADE

QUEENSLAND'S INTERSTATE TRADE

The value of interstate imports for Queensland in the September quarter 2008 was $10,875.8 million. The value of interstate exports in the September quarter 2008 was $4,990.9 million.

	Jun qtr 2008	Sep qtr 2008	Change between quarters
	$m	$m	%
Imports	12 727.8	10 875.8	-14.6
Exports	5 445.2	4 990.9	-8.3

The largest commodity group for imports in the September quarter 2008 was Road vehicles ($1,502.8 million). For exports, the largest commodity group was Other manufactured goods ($704.7 million).

	Imports	Exports
	$m	$m
Commodity
Meat and meat preparations	157.7	201.7
Dairy products	167.8	np
Coffee, tea, cocoa and spices	329.6	69.5
Other food and live animals	899.5	447.4
Beverages	np	364.4
Tobacco	np	np
Metalliferous ores and metal scrap	np	np
Other crude materials inedible except fuels	118.7	16.2
Petroleum products and related material	np	np
Other mineral fuels, lubricants and related material	np	np
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	12.6	np
Medicinal and pharmaceutical products	777.8	103.8
Essential oils and resinoids and perfume materials etc.	98.8	0.7
Fertilisers (excluding crude)	13.5	np
Other chemicals	280.1	215.8
Paperboard and articles of paper pulp etc.	196.3	60.9
Iron and steel	996.8	292.7
Other manufactured goods	1 177.8	704.7
Machinery specialised for particular industries	576.4	253.6
Telecommunications and sound recording/reproducing apparatus/equipment	138.9	12.9
Road vehicles	1 502.8	388.8
Transport equipment (excluding road vehicles)	33.1	170.7
Other machinery and transport equipment	686.9	137.7
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories	312.8	194.8
Other miscellaneous manufactured articles	np	613.3
Other commodities and transactions n.e.c.	np	—
Beverages and Tobacco(a)	512.1	na
Metalliferous ores and scrap metal, Petroleum products and related material and Other mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials(a)	11 937.4	1 na
Other miscellaneous and manufactured articles and Other commodities and transactions nec(a)	11 948.5	1 na
Dairy products and Tobacco(a)	na	52.4
Metalliferous ores and metal scrap, Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes and Fertilisers (excluding crude)(a)	1 na	1 412.5
Petroleum products and related material and Other mineral fuels, lubricants and related material(a)	1 na	1 276.4
Total	10 875.8	4 990.9

(a) Commodity groups combined due to confidentiality restrictions.
— nil or rounded to zero (including null cells).
na not applicable.
np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated.

Note: Interstate trade data are released quarterly. This is the second quarter for which the Queensland interstate trade estimates have been produced using sample survey methodology. As the new methodology differs significantly from that of the old survey, the results should be considered a break in series. Therefore, historical comparisons for total level imports and exports are presented for the previous quarter's results only.

Queensland interstate trade figures for the December quarter 2008 will be available on 17 March 2009.

For further information on Queensland's Interstate trade, please contact the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Queensland Interstate Trade on 1800 654 467.