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Overseas Trade Indexes (Prices): September 2011 quarter (provisional)

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Media release –: Capital goods keep import volumes at high levels

Key facts

The merchandise terms of trade fell 0.7 percent.
Export prices for goods fell 4.0 percent.
Import prices for goods fell 3.4 percent.

The services terms of trade rose 3.1 percent.
Services export prices fell 0.1 percent.
Services import prices fell 3.0 percent.

Graph, Merchandise price and terms of trade indexes, quarterly, September 2007 to September 2011.

Clare Ward
Acting Government Statistician

1 December 2011
ISSN 1178-0339