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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