The authoritative compendium of statistics on merchandise exports and imports, this publication analyses the growth, direction and commodity breakdown of Australia's trade over the past three years. It also includes individual reports showing the composition of trade with Australia's top 25 trading partners and selected country groups. Also included is a section on Australia's trade in services.

The publication is divided into two major segments:

Australia’s trade on a balance of payments basis

• Section 1 provides summary data on Australia’s goods and services showing current price values, chain volume measures, movements in export and import prices and the terms of trade.
• Section 2 shows the direction of Australia’s trade in goods and services to selected economies and regions, including Australia’s rank in world goods and services exports and imports.
• Section 3 presents Australia’s composition of services trade by type of activity and the direction of services trade to selected economies and regions.

Australia’s merchandise trade on a recorded trade basis

• Section 4 details Australia's merchandise trade by broad category and level of processing, including data on Australian produced exports.
• Section 5 provides commodity rankings for Australia’s major merchandise exports and imports.
• Section 6 shows the direction of Australia’s merchandise trade by economy by rank and selected groups.
• Section 7 gives a detailed commodity breakdown of Australia’s top 25 trading partners by the top 20 merchandise exports and imports as well as by selected regions and economies (e.g. APEC, Europe).

This publication is designed to be used in conjunction with DFAT’s trade data products available on the DFAT website which includes more detail by all economies and longer time series.