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OCTOBER KEY FIGURES

	August 2009	September 2009	October 2009
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	680	762	741
Beverages and tobacco	138	180	194
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	181	159	160
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	1 888	2 329	2 101
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	53	52	42
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 653	1 743	1 866
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 722	1 882	1 955
Machinery and transport equipment	5 826	6 885	6 897
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 284	2 418	2 460
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 054	1 221	1 542
TOTAL	15 479	17 630	17 959

• In original terms, the October 2009 merchandise imports were $17,959m, an increase of $329m (2%) on the revised September 2009 merchandise imports of $17,630m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis decreased by $280m (2%) in seasonally adjusted terms from $17,171m in September 2009 to $16,891m in October 2009. Intermediate and other merchandise goods fell $207m (3%) with fuels and lubricants down $236m (10%), non-monetary gold fell $66m (9%), consumption goods fell $42m (1%) while capital goods rose $35m (1%).