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Overseas Trade Indexes (Volumes): June 2008 quarter (provisional)
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Highlights


  • Seasonally adjusted merchandise export volumes fell 3.7 percent.
  • Dairy products and casein were the main contributors to the 9.2 percent fall in food and beverages exports.
  • Seasonally adjusted merchandise import volumes rose 5.4 percent, the highest level since the series began in June 1990.
  • The capital goods index rose 38.1 percent to a new high, and was the main contributor to the rise in imports.

  • All the broad economic category indexes rose.

 


Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician		 10 September 2008
ISSN 1178-0347


See also the Overseas Trade Indexes: June 2008 quarter (provisional) – Media release.

 



  Overseas Trade Indexes (Volumes): June 2008 quarter (provisional) (pdf)



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