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AUGUST KEY FIGURES

	June 2009	July 2009	August 2009
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	664	818	681
Beverages and tobacco	113	138	138
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	157	139	182
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 092	2 496	1 917
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	37	49	53
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 787	1 932	1 642
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 605	1 773	1 722
Machinery and transport equipment	6 293	6 452	5 827
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 161	2 372	2 285
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	775	547	1 055
TOTAL	15 684	16 715	15 502

• In original terms, the August 2009 merchandise imports were $15,502m, a decrease of $1,213m (7%) on the revised July 2009 merchandise imports of $16,715m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis decreased by $658m (4%) in seasonally adjusted terms from $16,844m in July 2009 to $16,186m in August 2009. Intermediate and other merchandise goods fell $728m (10%) with fuels and lubricants down $592m (24%), consumption goods fell $305m (6%) while non-monetary gold rose $289m (90%) and capital goods rose $85m (2%).