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SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

	July 2010	August 2010	September 2010
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	753	761	800
Beverages and tobacco	135	154	193
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	257	179	216
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 564	2 195	2 455
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	62	51	42
Chemicals and related products, nes	2 010	2 046	1 958
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	2 136	2 027	2 031
Machinery and transport equipment	7 229	6 971	7 060
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 355	2 472	2 606
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 246	554	972
TOTAL	18 747	17 409	18 332

• In original terms, the September 2010 merchandise imports were $18,332m, an increase of $923m (5%) on the August 2010 merchandise imports of $17,409m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms increased $928m (5%) in September 2010. In seasonally adjusted terms goods debits increased $350m (2%) from $17,384m in August 2010 to $17,734m. Non-monetary gold rose $333m and Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $185m (2%) with the fuels and lubricants component up $229m (11%). Capital goods fell $167m (4%) and consumption goods fell $1m.
• This preliminary analysis incorporates the results of annual seasonal re-analysis of seasonally adjusted series.