JUNE KEY FIGURES

	April 2007	May 2007	June 2007
	$m	$m	$m
Food and live animals	565	558	497
Beverages and tobacco	97	88	87
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	246	174	187
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	1 808	2 126	2 065
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	47	60	33
Chemicals and related products, nes	1 724	1 817	1 589
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1 684	1 717	1 646
Machinery and transport equipment	6 198	6 747	6 659
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	1 733	1 902	1 959
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC	493	447	674
TOTAL	14 596	15 636	15 396

JUNE KEY POINTS


ORIGINAL ESTIMATES

• In original terms, the June 2007 merchandise imports were $15,396m, a decrease of $240m (1.5%) on the revised May 2007 merchandise imports of $15,636m.

PRELIMINARY BALANCE OF PAYMENTS GOODS IMPORTS

• Preliminary analysis shows that goods imports (debits) on a balance of payments basis increased by 1% in seasonally adjusted terms between May and June 2007.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
July 2007	17 August 2007
August 2007	18 September 2007
September 2007	18 October 2007
October 2007	19 November 2007
November 2007	18 December 2007
December 2007	17 January 2008

INTRODUCTION

This publication presents statistics of Australia's merchandise imports classified according to the broadest level (1 digit sections) of the United Nations Standard International Trade Classification. The data are compiled from information submitted by importers or their agents to the Australian Customs Service. For more details see International Merchandise Trade, Australia: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 5489.0) on the ABS web site. More detailed merchandise imports data are available on the ABS web site www.abs.gov.au from the Details tab of this issue or by contacting the National Information and Referral Service.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Julia Jacques on Canberra (02) 6252 7042.