Table 1
Merchandise trade: Principal trading areas – Seasonally adjusted, current dollars

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Merchandise trade: Principal trading areas – Seasonally adjusted, current dollars

Table summary
This table displays the results of merchandise trade: principal trading areas – seasonally adjusted august 2010, july 2011, august 2011, july to august 2011 and august 2010 to august 2011, calculated using $ millions and % change units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  August 2010 July 2011Note r: revised August 2011 July to August 2011 August 2010 to August 2011
  $ millions % change
Principal trading areas          
Exports          
United States 24,866 27,265 26,630 -2.3 7.1
Japan 819 927 1,001 8.0 22.2
European UnionNote 1 3,122 3,580 3,979 11.1 27.5
Other OECD countriesNote 2 1,305 1,726 1,891 9.6 44.9
All other countries 3,439 4,177 4,363 4.5 26.9
Total 33,550 37,676 37,863 0.5 12.9
Imports          
United States 22,126 23,615 24,090 2.0 8.9
Japan 831 830 766 -7.7 -7.8
European UnionNote 1 3,603 3,859 3,671 -4.9 1.9
Other OECD countriesNote 2 2,293 2,652 2,748 3.6 19.8
All other countries 6,904 7,259 7,210 -0.7 4.4
Total 35,757 38,215 38,485 0.7 7.6
Balance          
United States 2,740 3,650 2,540 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Japan -12 97 235 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
European UnionNote 1 -481 -279 308 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Other OECD countriesNote 2 -988 -926 -857 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
All other countries -3,465 -3,082 -2,847 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Total -2,207 -539 -622 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
r revised
Note 1.

The European Union includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom.

Note 2.

Other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) include Australia, Canada, Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland and Turkey.

Note(s): Totals may not equal the sum of their components.