Overseas Trade Indexes (Prices): September 2012 quarter (provisional)

Key facts

The following movements occurred in the September 2012 quarter, compared with the June 2012 quarter.
The merchandise terms of trade fell 3.2 percent. Export prices for goods fell 6.3 percent. Import prices for goods fell 3.3 percent.	The services terms of trade remained unchanged. Services export prices fell 0.7 percent. Services import prices fell 0.7 percent.

Graph, Merchandise price and terms of trade indexes, quarterly, September 2008 to September 2012.

Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician

3 December 2012
ISSN 1178-0339