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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

	October 2013	November 2013	December 2013
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	1 095	1 016	958
Beverages and tobacco	267	265	254
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	219	187	191
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	3 789	3 927	3 700
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	53	50	46
Chemicals and related products, nes	2 206	2 057	1 862
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	2 404	2 371	2 022
Machinery and transport equipment	8 227	8 200	7 811
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	3 051	2 939	2 630
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	886	669	1 035
TOTAL	22 198	21 681	20 509

• In original terms, December 2013 imports on an international merchandise trade basis were $20,509m, a fall of $1,172m (5%) on the revised November 2013 merchandise imports of $21,681m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms fell $925m (4%) between November and December 2013.
• In seasonally adjusted terms, goods debits rose $576m (3%) between November and December 2013 to $22,488m. Capital goods rose $238m (4%), consumption goods rose $183m (3%), intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $123m (1%), and non-monetary gold rose $32m (10%).

• Revisions have been made to the previous six months to incorporate the latest administrative data relating to international merchandise trade.
• The preliminary balance of payments debits estimates incorporate the latest available data.