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OCTOBER KEY FIGURES

	August 2011	September 2011	October 2011
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	866	861	845
Beverages and tobacco	168	187	189
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	238	206	269
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	3 408	3 023	3 284
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	47	43	60
Chemicals and related products, nes	2 125	2 200	1 997
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	2 609	2 122	2 210
Machinery and transport equipment	7 434	7 297	7 876
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 581	2 608	2 634
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 063	1 456	1 440
TOTAL	20 540	20 002	20 805

• In original terms, the October 2011 merchandise imports were $20,805m, an increase of $803m (4%) on the September 2011 merchandise imports of $20,002m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms rose $834m (4%) between September and October 2011. In seasonally adjusted terms goods debits rose $615m (3%) from $20,207m in September 2011 to $20,822m in October 2011. Non-monetary gold rose $334m (57%), intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $173m (2%), driven by the fuels and lubricants component which was up $304m (11%) following a fall of $374m (12%) between August and September 2011. Capital goods rose $60m (1%) and consumption goods rose $48m (1%).
• The September quarter 2011 issue of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia (cat. no. 5302.0) and the October 2011 issue of International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia (cat. no. 5368.0) will include goods debits estimates that have been revised since the September 2011 issue of International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia which was released on 8 November 2011. These revisions reflect information recently obtained.
• Preliminary analysis shows that, in seasonally adjusted terms, the goods imports volumes was revised from 3.9% to 5.7% and the implicit price deflator was revised from -0.7% to -0.8% during the September quarter 2011. In original terms, the Chain Laspeyres price index remained unchanged and the implicit price deflator was revised from -0.2% to -0.4%.

• Revisions have been made to the previous six months to incorporate the latest administrative data relating to international merchandise trade.