1.1b	IMPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY GROUP
	for the periods indicated
	volume in 000 metric tons; unit price in U.S.$/mt; f.o.b. value in million U.S. dollars
																						2006							January - June							Growth Rates (%)
		Jan-06			Feb-06			Mar-06			Apr-06			May-06			Jun-06				Q1			Q2				2006				2005 a/				2006			2005
C o m m o d i t i e s		Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.		Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.		Vol.	Price	Val.		Vol.	Price	Val.		Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.
	Capital Goods			624			680			713			742			637			794				2017			2173				4190				4125				1.6			-6.7
	Power Generating & Specialized Machines			161			158			181			187			188			191				500			566				1066				989				7.8			-2.9
	Office & EDP Machines			227			222			252			280			222			262				701			764				1465				1590				-7.9			-5.0
	Telecommunication Eqpt. & Elect. Mach.			142			160			154			175			134			162				456			471				927				878				5.6			-21.0
	Land Transport Eqpt. excl. Passenger Cars
	& Motorized Cycle			39			52			73			53			37			48				164			138				302				313				-3.5			13.4
	Aircraft, Ships & Boats			24			48			18			13			21			88				90			122				212				151				40.4			62.4
	Prof. Sci. & Cont. Inst.; Photo-			31			40			35			34			35			43				106			112				218				204				6.9			-18.4
	graphic Eqpt. & Optical Goods
	Raw Materials & Intermediate Goods			2062			1848			2381			2740			2527			2558				6291			7825				14599				13836				5.5			4.6
	Unprocessed Raw Materials			155			73			158			114			105			164				386			383				769				764				0.7			1.3
	Wheat	200	150	30	176	160	28	454	134	61	251	203	51	208	183	38	302	182	55		829	143	119	761	189	144		1590	165	263		1073	149	160		48.2	10.7	64.4	-14.9	-1.3	-16.2
	Corn	81	112	9	33	244	8	36	112	4	1	750	1	60	133	8	89	112	10		149	141	21	150	126	19		300	133	40		7	1012	7		4185.7	-86.9	471.4	-56.3	170.6	16.7
	Unmilled cereals excl. rice & corn			0			0			1			0			0			0				1			0				1				1				0.0			0.0
	Crude materials, inedible			105			34			81			50			48			89				220			187				407				503				-19.1			1.0
	Pulp & waste paper			6			5			5			6			6			8				16			20				36				35				2.9			-16.7
	Cotton	3	1113	3	2	1279	2	3	1382	4	3	1200	3	1	1354	2	2	1312	2		7	1258	9	6	1272	7		13	1264	16		21	1079	23		-38.1	17.1	-30.4	5.0	-28.4	-23.3
	Syn. fibers	4	1588	6	3	1359	4	3	1854	6	3	2012	6	3	2016	7	4	1664	6		10	1607	16	10	1889	19		20	1748	35		26	1702	44		-23.1	2.7	-20.5	-29.7	22.1	-13.7
	Metalliferous ores			51			1			32			6			1			39				84			46				130				220				-40.9			28.7
	Others			39			22			34			29			32			34				95			95				190				181				5.0			-11.3
	Tobacco, unmanufactured			11			3			11			12			11			10				25			33				58				93				-37.6			57.6
	Semi-Processed Raw Materials			1907			1775			2223			2626			2422			2394				5905			7442				13830				13072				5.8			4.8
	Feeding stuffs for animals	181	232	42	132	242	32	106	246	26	242	235	57	91	286	26	114	210	24		419	239	100	447	239	107		866	239	207		888	232	206		-2.5	3.0	0.5	14.6	-15.6	-3.3
	Animal & vegetable oils & fats			14			10			14			13			13			12				38			38				76				74				2.7			39.6
	Chemical			284			224			319			335			293			316				827			944				1771				1591				11.3			3.8
	Chemical compounds			76			52			80			82			67			70				208			219				427				396				7.8			19.3
	Medicinal & pharmaceutical chemicals			45			39			46			47			36			57				130			140				270				229				17.9			11.7
	Urea	12	166	2	12	253	3	63	174	11	33	272	9	80	212	17	73	178	13		87	183	16	186	209	39		273	201	55		280	168	47		-2.5	19.6	17.0	43.6	20.9	74.1
	Fertilizer excl. urea	76	144	11	68	131	9	67	119	8	63	174	11	129	132	17	99	131	13		212	132	28	291	141	41		503	137	69		357	143	51		40.9	-4.2	35.3	-12.7	8.3	-5.6
	Artificial resins			73			56			86			86			79			80				215			245				460				400				15.0			-10.3
	Others			77			65			88			100			77			83				230			260				490				468				4.7			-0.2
	Manufactured goods			298			218			324			371			352			373				840			1096				1936				1915				1.1			6.7
	Paper & paper products	54	609	33	50	605	30	70	630	44	69	607	42	58	600	35	62	642	40		174	616	107	190	616	117		363	616	224		295	692	204		23.1	-11.0	9.8	-5.4	11.1	5.2
	Textile yarn, fabrics & made-up articles			75			47			74			92			81			80				196			253				449				360				24.7			-3.0
	Non-metallic mineral mftures.			17			14			18			16			16			17				49			49				98				88				11.4			15.8
	Iron & steel	158	508	80	94	556	52	151	478	72	266	499	133	250	464	116	273	459	125		402	508	204	789	474	374		1191	485	578		1423	540	769		-16.3	-10.2	-24.8	-14.5	35.3	16.0
	Non-ferrous metals			45			38			65			39			47			62				148			148				296				219				35.2			-0.9
	Metal products			27			20			31			28			35			28				78			91				169				158				7.0			-4.8
	Others			21			17			20			21			22			21				58			64				122				117				4.3			13.6
	Embroideries			96			91			88			89			118			114				275			321				596				614				-2.9			-6.7
	Mat/Acc  for the mftr. of elect. eqpt.			1506			1509			1918			1822			1709			1645				4038			5176				9214				8625				6.8			-1.2
	Iron ore, not agglomerated	0	0	0	448	20	9	333	18	6	104	19	2	402	20	8	246	20	5		781	19	15	752	20	15		1532	20	30		2464	19	47		-37.8	5.3	-36.2	31.7	0.0	30.6
	Mineral Fuels & Lubricant			681			525			615			542			902			792				1821			2236				4057				3019				34.4			33.9
	Coal, Coke	364	49	18	232	22	5	535	39	21	383	34	13	692	55	38	567	34	19		1131	39	44	1642	43	70		2773	41	114		2163	36	78		28.2	13.9	46.2	0.2	44.0	41.8
	Petroleum Crude  1/	8.53	51.11	436	5.29	56.18	297	4.54	59.97	272	5.84	60.27	352	8.68	68.81	597	8.07	63.56	513		18.35	54.76	1005	22.59	64.73	1462		40.94	60.26	2467		40.44	43.11	1743		1.2	39.8	41.5	12.9	34.5	51.8
	Others  1/	3.08	73.61	227	3.18	70.09	223	4.90	65.65	322	3.50	50.50	177	3.57	74.83	267	3.41	76.31	260		11.17	69.11	772	10.48	67.18	704		21.65	68.17	1476		20.41	58.70	1198		6.1	16.1	23.2	-25.6	53.3	14.0
	Consumer Goods			264			246			359			329			295			304				869			928				1797				1762				2.0			25.4
	Durable			124			91			113			116			132			140				328			388				716				658				8.8			11.1
	Passenger cars & motorized cycle			61			35			44			42			65			64				140			171				311				272				14.3			23.1
	Home appliances			16			10			19			17			13			20				45			50				95				103				-7.8			-5.5
	Misc. manufactures			47			46			50			57			54			56				143			167				310				283				9.5			8.0
	Non-Durable			140			155			246			213			163			164				541			540				1081				1104				-2.1			35.8
	Food & live animals chiefly for food			126			147			232			197			151			153				505			501				1006				1044				-3.6			39.9
	Dairy products	20	1601	32	20	1525	31	30	1653	49	29	1716	49	23	1446	33	24	1497	36		70	1601	112	75	1564	118		145	1582	230		156	1627	254		-7.1	-2.8	-9.4	-9.8	21.0	9.0
	Fish & fish preparation	18	388	7	9	437	4	11	549	6	7	441	3	7	417	3	5	365	2		38	446	17	19	411	8		58	434	25		50	495	25		16.0	-12.3	0.0	66.7	6.9	78.6
	Rice	109	257	28	170	270	46	355	270	96	225	280	63	132	273	36	156	212	33		634	268	170	513	257	132		1147	263	302		1095	286	313		4.7	-8.0	-3.5	126.7	26.5	187.2
	Fruits & vegetables			11			11			13			12			13			11				35			36				71				50				42.0			2.0
	Others			48			55			68			70			66			71				171			207				378				402				-6.0			17.9
	Beverages & tobacco mfture.			5			3			6			8			5			4				14			17				31				27				14.8			-30.8
	Articles of apparel, access.			9			5			8			8			7			7				22			22				44				33				33.3			17.9
	Special Transactions			46			59			67			63			86			86				172			235				407				410				-0.7			-23.8
	Articles temporarily imported & exported			22			35			36			34			38			33				93			105				198				247				-19.8			-23.1
	Others			24			24			31			29			48			53				79			130				209				163				28.2			-24.9
	TOTAL IMPORTS 2/			4010			3676			4610			4480			4545			4629				12296			13654				25950				23158				12.1			3.4
	Conceptual and Coverage Adjustments			-28			-35			-22			-26			-29			-38				-85			-93				-178				-205				-13.2			-34.1
	TOTAL IMPORTS, BPM5			3982			3641			4588			4454			4516			4591				12211			13561				25772				22953				12.3			4.0
1/   Volume in million barrels; unit price in U.S.$/barrel
	- -  Less than one million US dollars
	. .  Less than one thousand metric tons
	*   include raw materials for embroideries, mfture of electrical machinery and equipment, and iron ore agglomerated
	**  include part of imports of metalliferous ores and part of special transactions
	Data for January-August reflect adjustments on imports statistics, while October -November is still in "old series" figures.
2/  Include valuation adjustments to NSO data.
a/  Based on the final adjustments made by NSO that was released on March 24, 2006.
Note: Valuation adjustments include:
a.)  adjustments to NSO's raw material imports for electronics exports' for the 1999 - 2001 series.
b.)  Adjustments to NSO's raw material imports for garments fo the 1999 - 2005 series.
Note:  Components may not add up to total due to rounding