Overseas Merchandise Trade: July 2014

Overseas Merchandise Trade: July 2014
Key facts

4 September 2014

For July 2014 compared with July 2013:

- Exports fell $125 million (3.3 percent) to $3.7 billion.

- Logs, wood, and wood articles led this fall, down $53 million.

- Exports to China fell $35 million to $615 million, and to Australia fell $53 million to $687 million.

- The trend for exports appears to be falling.

- Imports fell $221 million (4.8 percent) to $4.4 billion.

- There was a trade deficit of $692 million (19 percent of exports).

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