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NOVEMBER KEY FIGURES

	September 2010	October 2010	November 2010
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	800	777	812
Beverages and tobacco	193	167	161
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	215	222	239
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 474	2 232	2 552
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	42	48	45
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 957	1 957	1 912
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	2 030	1 917	1 934
Machinery and transport equipment	7 062	6 989	7 560
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 605	2 520	2 584
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	972	837	1 352
TOTAL	18 352	17 666	19 152

• In original terms, the November 2010 merchandise imports were $19,152m, an increase of $1,486m (8%) on the October 2010 merchandise imports of $17,666m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms increased $1,306m (7%). In seasonally adjusted terms goods debits increased $613m (4%) from $17,083m in October 2010 to $17,696m in November 2010. Capital goods rose $314m (8%) with the civil aircraft and confidentialised items component up $343m, intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $260m (4%) with the fuels and lubricants component up $339m (16%), consumption goods rose $52m (1%) and non-monetary gold fell $14m (2%).