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It is difficult to get a complete picture of Tasmania’s imports because only those goods imported directly into Tasmania from overseas are currently recorded by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). It is known that significant amounts of consumer goods, and raw materials for input into manufacturing processes, are imported from interstate, and are thus not recorded by the ABS as Tasmanian imports.
More detail on the commodities imported into individual Tasmanian ports can be obtained from the individual Tasmanian port authorities, whose web sites are as follows:
- Burnie Port Corporation, www.burnieport.com.au
The most valuable import category in 2002-03 was ships, boats and floating structures, which accounted for 38.0% of the total. Pulp and waste paper was second, accounting for 10.9% of imports.
TASMANIAN OVERSEAS IMPORTS(a), Value
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 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | Change from
2001-02 |
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| Commodity | $’000 | $’000 | % |
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| Ships, boats and floating structures | 763 | 295,491 | 38,640.0 |
| Pulp and waste paper | 74,089 | 84,411 | 13.9 |
| Cocoa | 31,753 | 34,738 | 9.4 |
| Petroleum and petroleum products | 25,964 | 34,617 | 33.3 |
| Metalliferous ores and metal scrap | 13,507 | 32,770 | 142.6 |
| General industrial machinery and equipment | 36,818 | 26,144 | -29.0 |
| Machinery specialised for particular industries | 18,693 | 25,043 | 34.0 |
| Power generating machinery and equipment | 25,668 | 22,043 | -14.1 |
| Road vehicles | 22,961 | 17,095 | -25.5 |
| Textile yarn, fabrics and related products | 13,333 | 15,110 | 13.3 |
| Other | 254,852 | 189,188 | -25.8 |
| Total | 518,401 | 776,650 | 49.8 |
(a) Includes the top 10 overseas import commodities to Tasmania by value.
Source: ABS data available on request, International Trade data base. |
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