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 september 2010, august 2011, september 2011, august to september 2011 and september 2010 to september 2011, calculated using $ millions and % change units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  September 2010 August 2011Note r: revised September 2011 August to September 2011 September 2010 to September 2011
  $ millions % change
Exports          
Agricultural and fishing products 3,045 3,354 3,668 9.4 20.5
Energy products 6,786 8,632 9,609 11.3 41.6
Forestry products 1,814 1,861 1,941 4.3 7.0
Industrial goods and materials 7,879 10,126 10,470 3.4 32.9
Machinery and equipment 6,730 7,360 7,001 -4.9 4.0
Automotive products 4,638 4,543 4,798 5.6 3.4
Other consumer goods 1,336 1,403 1,494 6.5 11.8
Special transactions tradeNote 1 291 369 282 -23.6 -3.1
Other balance of payments adjustments 484 466 454 -2.6 -6.2
Total 33,002 38,115 39,717 4.2 20.3
Imports          
Agricultural and fishing products 2,517 2,803 2,758 -1.6 9.6
Energy products 3,262 4,103 4,336 5.7 32.9
Forestry products 222 210 216 2.9 -2.7
Industrial goods and materials 7,557 8,344 8,559 2.6 13.3
Machinery and equipment 10,156 10,559 10,206 -3.3 0.5
Automotive products 5,552 6,267 5,925 -5.5 6.7
Other consumer goods 4,912 5,057 5,033 -0.5 2.5
Special transactions tradeNote 1 435 476 647 35.9 48.7
Other balance of payments adjustments 722 783 792 1.1 9.7
Total 35,335 38,602 38,471 -0.3 8.9
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.