Table 2
Merchandise trade: Principal commodity groupings – Seasonally adjusted, current dollars

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Merchandise trade: Principal commodity groupings – Seasonally adjusted, current dollars

Table summary
This table displays the results of merchandise trade: principal commodity groupings – seasonally adjusted august 2010, july 2011, august 2011, july to august 2011 and august 2010 to august 2011, calculated using $ millions and % change units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  August 2010 July 2011Note r: revised August 2011 July to August 2011 August 2010 to August 2011
  $ millions % change
Exports          
Agricultural and fishing products 3,058 3,368 3,349 -0.6 9.5
Energy products 6,902 8,724 8,489 -2.7 23.0
Forestry products 1,818 1,832 1,842 0.5 1.3
Industrial goods and materials 7,843 9,895 10,088 2.0 28.6
Machinery and equipment 6,491 6,853 7,355 7.3 13.3
Automotive products 4,979 4,913 4,545 -7.5 -8.7
Other consumer goods 1,612 1,331 1,371 3.0 -15.0
Special transactions tradeNote 1 387 288 364 26.4 -5.9
Other balance of payments adjustments 461 471 459 -2.5 -0.4
Total 33,550 37,676 37,863 0.5 12.9
Imports          
Agricultural and fishing products 2,536 2,711 2,803 3.4 10.5
Energy products 3,897 4,557 3,936 -13.6 1.0
Forestry products 223 203 208 2.5 -6.7
Industrial goods and materials 7,153 8,166 8,301 1.7 16.0
Machinery and equipment 10,025 10,244 10,503 2.5 4.8
Automotive products 5,770 6,109 6,248 2.3 8.3
Other consumer goods 4,987 4,953 5,045 1.9 1.2
Special transactions tradeNote 1 435 472 653 38.3 50.1
Other balance of payments adjustments 732 801 786 -1.9 7.4
Total 35,757 38,215 38,485 0.7 7.6
r revised
Note 1.

These are mainly low valued transactions, value of repairs to equipment, and goods returned to country of origin.

Note(s): Totals may not equal the sum of their components.