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 november 2010, october 2011, november 2011, october to november 2011 and november 2010 to november 2011, calculated using $ millions and % change units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  November 2010 October 2011Note r: revised November 2011 October to November 2011 November 2010 to November 2011
  $ millions % change
Exports          
Agricultural and fishing products 3,211 3,594 3,689 2.6 14.9
Energy products 7,598 9,442 10,046 6.4 32.2
Forestry products 1,825 1,869 1,783 -4.6 -2.3
Industrial goods and materials 9,229 9,774 10,162 4.0 10.1
Machinery and equipment 6,398 6,887 6,902 0.2 7.9
Automotive products 4,494 5,079 5,327 4.9 18.5
Other consumer goods 1,346 1,397 1,369 -2.0 1.7
Special transactions tradeNote 1 292 301 297 -1.3 1.7
Other balance of payments adjustments 452 499 520 4.2 15.0
Total 34,845 38,841 40,094 3.2 15.1
Imports          
Agricultural and fishing products 2,502 2,760 2,809 1.8 12.3
Energy products 3,448 4,550 4,642 2.0 34.6
Forestry products 207 216 212 -1.9 2.4
Industrial goods and materials 7,595 8,597 8,338 -3.0 9.8
Machinery and equipment 9,786 10,819 10,701 -1.1 9.4
Automotive products 5,339 6,008 5,746 -4.4 7.6
Other consumer goods 4,967 5,075 5,114 0.8 3.0
Special transactions tradeNote 1 423 497 650 30.8 53.7
Other balance of payments adjustments 712 807 810 0.4 13.8
Total 34,979 39,328 39,020 -0.8 11.6
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.