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MARCH KEY FIGURES

	January 2011	February 2011	March 2011
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	662	687	740
Beverages and tobacco	120	101	142
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	159	152	250
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 231	2 792	3 430
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	28	47	39
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 905	1 806	2 306
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 854	1 937	1 830
Machinery and transport equipment	5 974	5 785	6 936
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 085	2 169	2 136
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	763	1 107	735
TOTAL	15 781	16 583	18 544

• In original terms, the March 2011 merchandise imports were $18,544m, an increase of $1,961m (12%) on the revised February 2011 merchandise imports of $16,583m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms increased $2,117m (13%). In seasonally adjusted terms goods debits increased $291m (2%) from $18,062m in February 2011 to $18,353m in March 2011. Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $623m (8%) with the fuels and lubricants component up $615m (23%) after increasing by 27% the previous month. Non-monetary gold rose $84m (25%). Capital goods fell $350m (8%) and consumption goods fell $66m (1%).

• Flooding began in late December 2010 in Queensland, and was more extensive in both Queensland and other states in January 2011. The collection and processing of data included in this publication were not disrupted. The specific impact of the floods on these estimates cannot be quantified.