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JUNE KEY FIGURES

	April 2014	May 2014	June 2014
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	924	1 000	885
Beverages and tobacco	210	202	198
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	195	215	218
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	3 170	3 734	3 651
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	36	48	56
Chemicals and related products, nes	2 273	2 141	1 951
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	2 438	2 432	2 333
Machinery and transport equipment	7 370	7 713	7 622
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	2 780	2 667	2 576
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	820	911	805
TOTAL	20 215	21 064	20 295

• In original terms, June 2014 imports on an international merchandise trade basis were $20,295m, a fall of $769m (4%) on the revised May 2014 merchandise imports of $21,064m.

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods debits (imports) on a balance of payments basis in original terms fell $709m (3%) between May and June 2014.
• In seasonally adjusted terms, goods debits fell $250m (1%) between May and June 2014 to $22,102m. Capital goods fell $159m (3%), consumption goods fell $85m (1%) and non-monetary gold fell $14m (4%). Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $9m.

• Revisions have been made to the previous six months to incorporate the latest administrative data relating to international merchandise trade.
• The preliminary balance of payments debits estimates incorporate the latest available data.