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FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

	December 2010	January 2011	February 2011
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	762	662	687
Beverages and tobacco	175	120	101
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	212	158	152
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	3 010	2 225	2 771
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	50	28	47
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 842	1 905	1 805
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 836	1 854	1 938
Machinery and transport equipment	6 914	5 976	5 791
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 240	2 086	2 168
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 108	763	1 107
TOTAL	18 149	15 777	16 569

• In original terms, the February 2011 merchandise imports were $16,569m, an increase of $792m (5%) on the revised January 2011 merchandise imports of $15,777m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms increased $661m (4%). In seasonally adjusted terms goods debits increased $1,010m (6%) from $17,022m in January 2011 to $18,032m in February 2011. Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $854m (12%) with the fuels and lubricants component up $561m (26%) after decreasing by 26% the previous month. Capital goods rose $92m (2%), non-monetary gold rose $53m (19%) and consumption goods rose $11m.

• Extensive 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.