International Trade in Goods

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Statistics about international trade in goods, on a balance of payments and international trade basis.

Reference period
October 2023
Released
7/12/2023

Key statistics

  • The seasonally adjusted balance on goods increased $945m in October. 
  • Goods credits (exports) rose $182m (0.4%) driven by Metal Ores and minerals. 
  • Goods debits (imports) fell $763m (1.9%) driven by Industrial transport equipment n.e.s.

Cessation of monthly International Trade in Services statistics

International Trade in Services data is no longer available in this monthly publication.

International Trade in Services data will continue to be available quarterly in the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia publication.

A guide for users to compile monthly international trade in services estimates is available, see the attached article, Monthly International Trade in Services compilation guide

Trade overview

Key Figures, Seasonally Adjusted
 Aug-23 ($m)Sep-23 ($m)Oct-23 ($m)Sep-23 to Oct-23 ($m)Sep-23 to Oct-23 (%)
Balance on goods9,9116,1847,129945na
 Credits (Exports of goods)46,19045,36645,5481820.4
 Debits (Imports of goods)-36,279-39,182-38,419-763-1.9

na not applicable
 

  1. Large month-to-month changes occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in multiple trend breaks. The ABS recommends caution when using trend estimates published in spreadsheets for this period.

Goods credits

  1. Large month-to-month changes occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in multiple trend breaks. The ABS recommends caution when using trend estimates published in spreadsheets for this period.
Goods credits, seasonally adjusted
 Aug-23 ($m)Sep-23 ($m)Oct-23 ($m)Sep-23 to Oct-23 ($m)Sep-23 to Oct-23 (%)
Total goods credits46,19045,36645,5481820.4
 General merchandise42,17442,91042,956460.1
  Rural goods5,9396,2146,101-113-1.8
  Non-rural goods36,23536,69636,8551590.4
 Net exports of goods under merchanting(a)414049922.5
 Non-monetary gold(a)3,9752,4162,5431275.3
  1. This component is not seasonally adjusted.

Rural goods

Non-rural goods

Goods debits

  1. Large month-to-month changes occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in multiple trend breaks. The ABS recommends caution when using trend estimates published in spreadsheets for this period.
Goods debits(a), seasonally adjusted
 Aug-23 ($m)Sep-23 ($m)Oct-23 ($m)Sep-23 to Oct-23 ($m)Sep-23 to Oct-23 (%)
Total goods debits-36,279-39,182-38,419-763-1.9
 General merchandise debits-35,682-38,348-37,365-983-2.6
  Consumption goods-11,846-11,866-11,810-56-0.5
  Capital goods-8,285-10,288-9,135-1,153-11.2
  Intermediate and other merchandise goods-15,552-16,194-16,4202261.4
 Non-monetary gold(b)-597-834-1,05422026.4
  1. For sign conventions, see the methodology page.
  2. This component is not seasonally adjusted.

Consumption goods

Capital goods

Intermediate and other merchandise goods

Supplementary information

Selected commodities

Value adjustments

Revisions

Confidential Commodities List

Data downloads

Time series spreadsheets

Data files
Data files

The ABS is no longer publishing Tables 9 and 10.

For previously published monthly International Trade in Services data, see the August 2023 publication.

Create your own tables and visualisations with Data Explorer

Caution: Data in Data Explorer is currently released after the 11:30am release on the ABS website. Please check the reference period when using Data Explorer.

Data explorer for the monthly trade in goods. Users might need to update links to the new version. 

For information on Data Explorer and how it works, see the Data Explorer user guide.

Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue number 5368.0.

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