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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

	October 2009	November 2009	December 2009
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	741	712	781
Beverages and tobacco	194	173	176
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	160	173	250
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 091	2 162	2 717
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	42	44	53
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 864	1 696	1 700
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 955	1 870	1 685
Machinery and transport equipment	6 881	7 648	7 005
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 459	2 323	1 964
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 542	749	1 330
TOTAL	17 929	17 549	17 662

• In original terms, the December 2009 merchandise imports were $17,662m, an increase of $113m (1%) on the revised November 2009 merchandise imports of $17,549m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis increased by $1,156m (7%) in seasonally adjusted terms from $16,265m in November 2009 to $17,421m in December 2009. Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $760m (11%) with the fuels and lubricants component up $535m (26%), capital goods rose $246m (7%), non-monetary gold rose $224m (51%) while consumption goods fell $74m (1%).