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JANUARY KEY FIGURES

	November 2010	December 2010	January 2011
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	812	762	662
Beverages and tobacco	161	175	120
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	239	212	158
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2 550	3 025	2 225
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	45	50	28
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 912	1 844	1 902
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 934	1 836	1 855
Machinery and transport equipment	7 559	6 914	5 976
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 583	2 240	2 087
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	1 351	1 108	765
TOTAL	19 145	18 166	15 778

• In original terms, the January 2011 merchandise imports were $15,778m, a decrease of $2,388m (13%) on the December 2010 merchandise imports of $18,166m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms decreased $2,381m (13%). In seasonally adjusted terms goods debits decreased $960m (5%) from $17,943m in December 2010 to $16,983m in January 2011. Intermediate and other merchandise goods fell $906m (11%) with the fuels and lubricants component down $754m (26%) after increasing by 17% the previous month; and the other merchandise goods component down $172m (71%). Non-monetary gold fell $102m (26%) and consumption goods fell $79m (1%). Capital goods rose $128m (3%).

• 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.