2.2	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
																																								January - December
		Jan-03			Feb-03			Mar-03			Apr-03			May-03			Jun-03			Jul-03			Aug-03			Sep-03			Oct-03			Nov-03			Dec-03				2003
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.		Vol.	Price	Val.
	Capital Goods			675			682			742			732			714			723			762			707			765			794			748			737				8781
	Power Generating & Specialized Machines			137			142			162			160			150			147			167			162			156			167			158			176				1884
	Office & EDP Machines			234			259			245			282			267			262			282			272			304			340			320			298				3365
	Telecommunication Eqpt. & Elect. Mach.			194			164			203			174			183			185			168			167			176			184			175			162				2135
	Land Transport Eqpt. excl. Passenger Cars
	& Motorized Cycle			78			79			83			73			68			93			84			61			68			54			53			46				840
	Aircraft, Ships & Boats			4			8			10			16			8			5			10			11			15			9			8			11				115
	Prof. Sci. & Cont. Inst.; Photo-			28			30			39			27			38			31			51			34			46			40			34			44				442
	graphic Eqpt. & Optical Goods
	Raw Materials & Intermediate Goods			1930			1845			2334			2133			2221			2017			2216			2104			2015			2124			2176			2120				25235
	Unprocessed Raw Materials			138			100			119			134			128			117			82			94			113			128			97			112				1362
	Wheat	342	132	45	179	151	27	140	178	25	217	175	38	262	168	44	270	130	35	113	177	20	138	189	26	194	134	26	407	157	64	238	143	34	251	151	38		2752	153	422
	Corn	. .	0	0	11	178	2	1	961	1	1	732	1	2	441	1	1	983	1	1	1638	1	1	1155	1	77	130	10	2	967	2	1	797	1	. .	0	0		99	211	21
	Unmilled cereals excl. rice & corn			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			1			0				1
	Crude materials, inedible			88			69			83			83			72			74			55			60			73			55			50			70				832
	Pulp & waste paper			5			4			6			7			6			6			6			5			5			6			5			4				65
	Cotton	3	924	3	4	1001	4	4	993	4	4	1063	4	2	916	2	3	1107	3	2	1207	3	3	1044	3	2	1172	2	2	1269	2	2	1323	2	2	1067	2		32	1064	34
	Syn. fibers	7	903	6	5	1356	7	6	1308	8	6	1365	8	6	1278	8	5	1075	5	4	1118	5	6	1438	8	5	1278	7	4	1338	6	5	1550	7	4	1512	6		63	1282	81
	Metalliferous ores			37			26			36			36			24			29			13			1			37			19			6			33				297
	Others			37			28			29			28			32			31			28			43			22			22			30			25				355
	Tobacco, unmanufactured			5			2			10			12			11			7			6			7			4			7			11			4				86
	Semi-Processed Raw Materials			1792			1745			2215			1999			2093			1900			2134			2010			1902			1996			2079			2008				23873
	Feeding stuffs for animals	169	201	34	35	316	11	106	264	28	53	244	13	39	307	12	127	221	28	102	216	22	83	229	19	256	196	50	191	210	40	97	228	22	202	218	44		1459	221	323
	Animal & vegetable oils & fats			6			4			6			6			7			7			5			5			4			4			4			4				62
	Chemical			227			219			266			265			258			245			257			237			220			251			240			195				2880
	Chemical compounds			56			58			70			68			62			54			53			53			43			54			59			39				669
	Medicinal & pharmaceutical chemicals			36			28			39			34			34			37			35			35			35			31			29			23				396
	Urea	15	134	2	41	123	5	21	188	4	36	169	6	98	143	14	130	131	17	68	133	9	63	142	9	78	128	10	77	142	11	54	129	7	39	128	5		720	137	99
	Fertilizer excl. urea	72	152	11	49	124	6	36	137	5	72	181	13	81	123	10	49	122	6	95	126	12	52	96	5	45	110	5	64	141	9	68	103	7	89	123	11		773	129	100
	Artificial resins			57			57			69			68			63			65			71			64			60			69			66			53				762
	Others			65			65			79			76			75			66			77			71			67			77			72			64				854
	Manufactured goods			274			250			316			350			278			252			275			237			238			277			249			249				3245
	Paper & paper products	52	611	32	43	539	23	57	582	33	57	613	35	56	602	34	51	605	31	55	601	33	54	579	31	45	572	26	47	639	30	51	586	30	37	620	23		606	596	361
	Textile yarn, fabrics & made-up articles			66			46			77			69			67			71			64			47			53			57			56			53				726
	Non-metallic mineral mftures.			13			11			15			12			14			13			15			13			13			13			14			11				157
	Iron & steel	292	305	89	399	269	107	289	363	105	494	302	149	238	352	84	119	453	54	172	384	66	202	356	72	212	349	74	258	345	89	221	353	78	297	320	95		3193	333	1062
	Non-ferrous metals			30			26			38			35			31			33			34			28			29			34			36			33				387
	Metal products			26			21			28			30			26			31			47			26			26			36			19			20				336
	Others			18			16			20			20			22			19			16			20			17			18			16			14				216
	Embroideries			106			118			113			83			104			141			139			122			125			92			79			121				1343
	Mat/Acc  for the mftr. of elect. eqpt.			1138			1136			1482			1278			1433			1221			1427			1384			1258			1327			1477			1384				15945
	Iron ore, not agglomerated	388	18	7	359	20	7	224	18	4	216	18	4	63	16	1	316	19	6	487	18	9	316	19	6	349	20	7	268	19	5	412	19	8	577	19	11		3976	19	75
	Mineral Fuels & Lubricant			329			365			372			307			401			236			298			321			297			251			303			285				3765
	Coal, Coke	347	26	9	322	22	7	364	27	10	430	23	10	577	24	14	353	23	8	184	27	5	383	23	9	437	23	10	178	28	5	363	28	10	149	34	5		4088	25	102
	Petroleum Crude  1/	8.34	28.19	235	8.38	30.07	252	7.29	31.57	230	7.96	27.62	220	12.67	24.46	310	6.06	25.90	157	7.83	26.57	208	8.08	27.84	225	7.79	27.22	212	6.07	26.35	160	6.17	28.03	173	5.03	28.24	142		91.67	27.53	2524
	Others  1/	2.62	32.49	85	2.98	35.57	106	3.48	37.98	132	2.26	34.01	77	2.48	31.04	77	2.51	28.27	71	2.79	30.52	85	2.64	32.94	87	2.10	35.77	75	2.56	33.66	86	3.47	34.57	120	4.08	33.83	138		33.96	33.54	1139
	Consumer Goods			218			160			251			235			268			229			244			242			222			218			242			196				2725
	Durable			99			70			103			99			103			98			97			86			89			98			115			98				1155
	Passenger cars & motorized cycle			40			29			37			34			34			34			33			29			33			33			41			32				409
	Home appliances			12			8			15			17			18			15			16			12			15			17			20			16				181
	Misc. manufactures			47			33			51			48			51			49			48			45			41			48			54			50				565
	Non-Durable			119			90			148			136			165			131			147			156			133			120			127			98				1570
	Food & live animals chiefly for food			95			80			124			118			149			114			129			135			115			102			104			80				1345
	Dairy products	25	1072	27	26	982	26	39	1085	42	25	1156	29	28	1218	34	26	1280	33	28	1200	34	32	1379	44	22	1362	30	24	1349	32	27	1347	37	16	1188	19		319	1215	387
	Fish & fish preparation	7	568	4	5	371	2	9	565	5	8	605	5	26	571	15	4	456	2	4	483	2	3	346	1	4	497	2	9	458	4	10	516	5	7	416	3		97	516	50
	Rice	14	143	2	30	203	6	60	201	12	97	175	17	176	176	31	109	165	18	130	177	23	168	161	27	93	172	16	10	96	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		886	173	153
	Fruits & vegetables			9			7			11			8			7			6			7			9			7			8			11			13				103
	Others			53			39			54			59			62			55			63			54			60			57			51			45				652
	Beverages & tobacco mfture.			19			7			19			13			12			13			14			16			14			13			18			13				171
	Articles of apparel, access.			5			3			5			5			4			4			4			5			4			5			5			5				54
	Special Transactions			71			73			85			75			79			79			77			90			76			89			137			91				1020
	Articles temporarily imported & exported			37			26			37			36			43			32			39			42			36			35			41			41				445
	Others			34			47			48			39			36			47			38			48			40			54			96			50				575
	TOTAL IMPORTS 2/
	Trade Statistics			3223			3123			3784			3482			3684			3282			3601			3464			3374			3473			3607			3428				41525
	Conceptual and Coverage Adjustments			-21			-15			-16			-28			-26			-34			-37			-39			-33			-27			-38			-21				-335
	TOTAL IMPORTS, BPM5			3202			3108			3768			3454			3658			3248			3564			3425			3341			3446			3569			3407				41190
	Memo Items:
	Goods for processing (on consignment)			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####				1445
	Raw Materials and Intermediate Goods			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####				1418
	Embroideries			106			118			113			83			104			141			139			122			125			92			79			121				1343
	Mat/Acc for the mfture of electrical equipment																																								0
	Iron ore, not agglomerated			7			7			4			4			1			6			9			6			7			5			8			11				75
	Special Transactions			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####				25
	Non- monetary gold			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####			#####				0
	Held as store of value																																								0
	Other industrial gold																																								0
	Repairs on goods																																								0
a/  Data for January-August reflect adjustments, while October -November is still based on the "old series", that is, without adjusting for the understatements.
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.
Note: Valuation adjustments include:
a.)  adjustments to NSO's raw material imports for electronics exports' for the 1999 - 2001 series and 2005 preliminary estimates
b.)  Adjustments to NSO's raw material imports for garments fo the 1999 - 2005 series.
Components may not add up to total due to rounding