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FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

	December 2009	January 2010	February 2010
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	780	644	627
Beverages and tobacco	176	121	102
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	250	162	140
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 694	2 008	2 168
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	53	36	32
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 695	1 633	1 729
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 684	1 892	1 741
Machinery and transport equipment	7 005	5 791	5 897
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	1 964	2 136	2 093
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 330	958	763
TOTAL	17 630	15 381	15 293

• In original terms, the February 2010 merchandise imports were $15,293m, a decrease of $88m (1%) on the revised January 2010 merchandise imports of $15,381m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis increased by $386m (2%) in seasonally adjusted terms from $16,671m in January 2010 to $17,057m in February 2010. Consumption goods rose $263m (5%) with the non-industrial transport equipment component up $210m (16%), non-monetary gold rose $116m (33%) and capital goods rose $65m (2%) while intermediate and other merchandise goods fell $57m (1%).