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Overseas Trade Indexes (Volumes): December 2007 quarter (provisional)


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Highlights


  • Seasonally adjusted merchandise export volumes rose 10.7 percent (the largest quarterly increase on record), to reach a new high.
  • The dairy products index rose 27.4 percent, more than exceeding the fall in the previous quarter, and was the main contributor to the rise in exports.
  • The petroleum and petroleum products sub-index had its fourth consecutive quarter of large increases.
  • Seasonally adjusted merchandise import volumes rose 5.4 percent, the sixth consecutive rise.
  • The capital goods index increased 32.6 percent to reach a new high, and was 11.5 percent higher than the previous high in the December 2005 quarter.

 



Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
11 March 2008
ISSN 1178-0347


There is a companion Media Release published – Overseas Trade Indexes: December 2007 quarter (provisional).

 



  Overseas Trade Indexes (Volumes): December 2007 quarter (provisional) (pdf)



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