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JUNE KEY FIGURES

	April 2009	May 2009	June 2009
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	671	661	663
Beverages and tobacco	142	110	114
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	124	114	157
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	1 872	1 856	2 073
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	46	47	37
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 996	1 821	1 788
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 754	1 519	1 605
Machinery and transport equipment	5 985	5 540	6 294
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 378	2 122	2 163
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 239	938	776
TOTAL	16 208	14 728	15 671

• In original terms, the June 2009 merchandise imports were $15,671m, an increase of $943m (6%) on the revised May 2009 merchandise imports of $14,728m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis decreased by $14m in seasonally adjusted terms from $16,289m in May 2009 to $16,275m in June 2009. Other goods fell $502m (48%) with non-monetary gold down $336m (45%) and goods for processing down $170m. Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $247m (4%) with fuels and lubricants up $234m (13%), consumption goods rose $207m (4%) with non-industrial transport equipment up $220m (26%), and capital goods rose $35m (1%).