JULY KEY FIGURES

	May 2007	June 2007	July 2007
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	557	498	568
Beverages and tobacco	88	87	102
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	174	187	214
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 128	2 077	1 884
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	60	33	56
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 816	1 590	1 754
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 717	1 644	1 758
Machinery and transport equipment	6 748	6 659	6 163
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	1 902	1 959	2 042
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	447	674	734
TOTAL	15 637	15 409	15 275

JULY KEY POINTS


ORIGINAL ESTIMATES

• In original terms, the July 2007 merchandise imports were $15,275m, a decrease of $134m (0.9%) on the revised June 2007 merchandise imports of $15,409m.

PRELIMINARY BALANCE OF PAYMENTS GOODS IMPORTS

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis decreased by 4% in seasonally adjusted terms between June and July 2007.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
August 2007	18 September 2007
September 2007	18 October 2007
October 2007	19 November 2007
November 2007	18 December 2007
December 2007	17 January 2008
January 2008	19 February 2008

INTRODUCTION

This publication presents statistics of Australia's merchandise imports classified according to the broadest level (1 digit sections) of the United Nations Standard International Trade Classification. The data are compiled from information submitted by importers or their agents to the Australian Customs Service. For more details see International Merchandise Trade, Australia: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 5489.0) on the ABS web site. More detailed merchandise imports data are available on the ABS web site www.abs.gov.au from the Details tab of this issue or by contacting the National Information and Referral Service.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Olivia Lam on Canberra (02) 6252 7406.