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 december 2010, november 2011, december 2011, november to december 2011 and december 2010 to december 2011, calculated using millions of dollars and % change units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  December 2010 November 2011Note r: revised December 2011 November to December 2011 December 2010 to December 2011
  millions of dollars % change
Exports          
Agricultural and fishing products 3,490 3,702 3,842 3.8 10.1
Energy products 9,240 10,163 10,339 1.7 11.9
Forestry products 1,998 1,781 1,816 2.0 -9.1
Industrial goods and materials 9,010 10,125 10,508 3.8 16.6
Machinery and equipment 7,003 6,854 7,486 9.2 6.9
Automotive products 4,517 5,394 5,756 6.7 27.4
Other consumer goods 1,338 1,376 1,470 6.8 9.9
Special transactions tradeNote 1 274 289 291 0.7 6.2
Other balance of payments adjustments 496 521 513 -1.5 3.4
Total 37,366 40,203 42,021 4.5 12.5
Imports          
Agricultural and fishing products 2,592 2,809 2,825 0.6 9.0
Energy products 3,731 4,653 4,302 -7.5 15.3
Forestry products 216 212 230 8.5 6.5
Industrial goods and materials 7,661 8,352 8,567 2.6 11.8
Machinery and equipment 9,741 10,741 10,882 1.3 11.7
Automotive products 5,527 5,828 6,037 3.6 9.2
Other consumer goods 4,864 5,129 5,150 0.4 5.9
Special transactions tradeNote 1 381 509 487 -4.3 27.8
Other balance of payments adjustments 758 804 855 6.3 12.8
Total 35,471 39,036 39,334 0.8 10.9
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.