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JUNE KEY FIGURES

	April 2010	May 2010	June 2010
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	620	633	734
Beverages and tobacco	120	114	125
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	183	164	176
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 522	2 235	2 509
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	44	34	50
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 805	1 976	1 884
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 750	1 793	1 873
Machinery and transport equipment	6 540	7 005	7 207
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	1 962	2 008	2 263
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 224	1 329	1 091
TOTAL	16 772	17 290	17 911

• In original terms, the June 2010 merchandise imports were $17,911m, an increase of $621m (4%) on the revised May 2010 merchandise imports of $17,290m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis increased $4m in seasonally adjusted terms from $18,403m in May 2010 to $18,407m in June 2010. Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $351m (5%) with the fuels and lubricants component up $282m (13%), consumption goods rose $41m (1%). Non-monetary gold fell $240m (28%) and capital goods fell $147m (3%).