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
																														Q3						Growth Rates						January - September							Growth Rates (%)
		Jan-11			Feb-11			Mar-11			Apr-11			May-11			Jun-11			Jul-11			Aug-11			Sep-11				2011p/			2010 r/			2011p/			2010 r/			2011p/				2010 r/			2011			2010
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.	Vol.	Price	Val.		Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.	Vol.	Price	Val.
	Capital Goods			836			757			802			703			758			722			881			905			969				2755			4048			-32.0			13.8			7333				11963			-38.7			117.8
	Power Generating & Specialized Machines			316			251			293			274			291			255			286			311			304				901			733			22.9			38.6			2581				2131			21.1			43.2
	Office & EDP Machines			157			117			135			124			158			157			160			177			190				527			614			-14.1			-6.1			1376				1965			-30.0			20.6
	Telecommunication Eqpt. & Elect. Mach.			207			187			212			174			150			173			228			213			198				638			2209			-71.1			10.2			1742				6369			-72.7			393.8
	Land Transport Eqpt. excl. Passenger Cars
	& Motorized Cycle			99			113			86			66			72			70			88			89			109				286			202			41.6			-3.7			791				640			23.7			30.9
	Aircraft, Ships & Boats			17			46			29			18			35			24			72			68			120				260			133			96.2			396.4			428				422			1.6			68.0
	Prof. Sci. & Cont. Inst.; Photo-			41			42			47			47			53			43			47			47			48				142			158			-9.9			16.8			415				436			-4.9			26.6
	graphic Eqpt. & Optical Goods
	Raw Materials & Intermediate Goods			2989			2504			3314			2827			2807			2493			2594			2420			2614				7628			7849			-2.8			47.4			24565	0			19828			23.9			7.4
	Unprocessed Raw Materials			286			122			301			167			195			141			174			213			316				703			829			-15.1			58.5			1917	0			1920			-0.2			15.2
	Wheat	170	313	53	133	338	45	319	299	95	168	317	53	209	373	78	128	326	42	225	368	83	204	281	57	218	354	77		647	336	218	556	232	129	16.4	45.2	69.0	29.8	-11.6	14.8	1773	329	584	0	1582	232	367	12.1	41.7	58.9	-37.3	0.0	-37.3
	Corn	3	551	0	7	327	2	11	379	4	5	982	5	4	1308	5	1	4209	5	1	494	1	1	867	1	2	1954	4		5	1285	6	14	1009	14	-64.7	27.4	-55.0	403.1	-19.4	305.4	37	819	31	0	83	731	61	-55.1	12.1	-49.6	-72.3	153.9	-29.6
	Unmilled cereals excl. rice & corn			1			1			1			1			1			1			1			1			1				2			1			0.0			47.1			8	0			16			0.0			0.0
	Crude materials, inedible			219			66			189			95			94			77			83			140			221				444			667			-33.4			82.2			1184	0			1389			-14.7			63.6
	Pulp & waste paper			9			8			7			10			8			6			6			7			7				20			14			43.4			-3.0			67	0			41			63.3			17.7
	Cotton	1	1865	2	2	2623	4	2	3137	5	1	3254	3	1	4114	6	1	4414	7	2	3772	7	0	654	0	0	2376	1		3	3350	9	4	1935	7	-29.4	73.1	22.1	-28.9	56.0	11.0	11	3294	35	0	13	1695	21	-15.3	94.3	64.6	-3.0	43.6	39.4
	Syn. fibers	3	2749	8	3	3019	8	4	2412	10	3	3255	10	2	3464	8	2	2934	6	3	3532	11	3	2415	6	4	2226	8		9	2700	25	9	2635	24	4.0	2.5	6.6	1.0	23.7	24.9	26	2844	75	0	34	1981	68	-22.8	43.6	10.9	34.9	-1.4	33.1
	Metalliferous ores			149			13			111			23			21			14			26			73			160				259			495			-47.6			117.6			591	0			947			-37.6			106.5
	Others			51			33			56			50			50			45			33			54			44				131			128			2.6			28.9			415	0			311			33.7			7.7
	Tobacco, unmanufactured			13			7			11			13			17			16			7			13			13				33			18			86.8			-55.7			110	0			87			26.1			-37.3
	Semi-Processed Raw Materials			2703			2382			3013			2660			2612			2352			2419			2208			2298				6925			7021			-1.4			46.2			22648	0			17907			26.5			6.6
	Feeding stuffs for animals	144	440	63	885	93	82	112	440	49	158	503	79	196	462	91	91	449	41	91	479	43	139	428	60	208	402	84		438	426	187	459	358	164	-4.6	19.3	13.7	-3.3	1.5	-1.9	2024	293	593	0	1146	387	444	76.7	-24.4	33.6	-22.2	30.6	1.6
	Animal & vegetable oils & fats			24			28			45			52			52			46			60			42			41				142			40			254.2			-5.2			389	0			124			215.1			8.7
	Chemical			548			517			593			544			522			518			525			544			512				1581			1343			17.7			18.9			4823	0			3823			26.1			20.2
	Chemical compounds			137			145			164			152			142			144			128			122			150				400			338			18.1			8.1			1284	0			1001			28.2			14.6
	Medicinal & pharmaceutical chemicals			81			68			97			81			81			72			78			74			73				225			193			16.7			-1.3			704	0			583			20.9			4.7
	Urea	64	398	26	41	338	14	27	367	10	29	357	10	36	374	14	46	334	15	88	344	30	14	504	7	7	522	3		109	376	41	212	269	57	-48.5	39.7	-28.1	27.1	-5.8	19.7	353	368	130	0	419	280	117	-15.8	31.4	10.7	-25.6	5.4	-21.6
	Fertilizer excl. urea	53	340	18	91	325	30	56	328	18	46	335	15	89	312	28	110	293	32	81	327	27	80	346	28	35	331	12		197	336	66	197	271	53	0.1	23.8	23.8	19.1	10.5	31.6	642	323	207	0	707	250	177	-9.2	29.3	17.4	54.8	5.8	63.7
	Artificial resins			147			124			143			133			122			122			133			171			140				444			319			39.0			57.6			1234	0			852			44.8			52.4
	Others			139			135			161			153			137			133			130			142			133				405			381			6.1			15.7			1263	0			1093			15.5			17.2
	Manufactured goods			461			415			500			483			445			409			443			438			456				1336			1049			27.4			20.1			4049	0			3029			33.7			27.3
	Paper & paper products	68	838	57	80	826	66	88	853	75	83	821	68	78	814	64	80	832	66	67	843	56	67	842	57	72	840	61		206	842	174	209	763	160	-1.4	10.3	8.7	3.8	13.1	17.4	684	834	570	0	640	672	430	6.9	24.2	32.7	25.1	-3.3	20.9
	Textile yarn, fabrics & made-up articles			64			47			64			75			63			63			63			58			69				189			125			51.4			8.2			565	0			358			57.8			-1.3
	Non-metallic mineral mftures.			38			30			38			38			36			36			37			36			33				106			85			25.7			10.2			322	0			259			24.3			25.8
	Iron & steel	161	747	121	123	766	94	147	847	124	183	714	130	108	953	103	90	950	85	101	940	95	142	854	121	122	989	121		365	923	337	365	884	322	0.1	4.5	4.5	-8.1	48.4	36.3	1177	845	995	0	1162	776	901	1.3	9.0	10.4	24.2	10.3	36.9
	Non-ferrous metals			78			83			92			68			73			78			99			75			79				254			147			73.0			6.1			725	0			450			61.3			44.9
	Metal products			64			60			69			65			63			51			51			52			53				156			123			27.1			18.9			530	0			400			32.5			26.1
	Others			40			35			38			38			42			30			41			38			40				120			87			37.4			30.6			342	0			231			47.9			37.1
	Embroideries			75			73			71			65			80			81			92			76			70				238			180			32.4			10.6			682	0			497			37.4			2.2
	Mat/Acc  for the mftr. of elect. eqpt.			1531			1267			1755			1438			1423			1258			1257			1049			1094				3399			4245			-19.9			75.0			12070	0			9991			20.8			-1.9
	Iron ore, not agglomerated	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	225	186	42		225	186	42	0	0	0	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	225	186	42	0	14	60	1	1504.4	208.5	4849.7	-95.2	32.0	-93.6
	Mineral Fuels & Lubricant			909			1034			881			1393			686			1040			1313			985			883				3181			2095			51.8			9.1			9124	0			6869			32.8			31.5
	Coal, Coke	500	77	39	561	77	43	549	87	48	773	88	68	541	73	39	478	79	38	722	87	63	667	81	54	640	78	50		2028	82	167	1919	73	139	5.7	13.6	20.0	30.7	3.5	35.2	5431	81	443	0	4817	71	343	12.7	14.3	28.9	6.4	3.7	10.4
	Petroleum Crude  1/	5.96	93.97	560	7.32	100.82	738	4.37	112.97	494	8.40	115.20	968	2.21	127.53	282	6.43	112.83	726	7.67	112.93	866	5.39	109.66	591	4.91	109.19	536		17.97	110.93	1993	14.21	74.73	1062	26.4	48.4	87.7	3.0	6.2	9.4	52.67	109.38	5761	0	48.53	75.88	3682	8.5	44.1	56.4	36.7	25.1	70.9
	Others  1/	2.73	113.91	310	2.29	110.35	253	2.76	123.09	339	2.62	136.13	357	2.72	134.09	364	2.48	111.08	276	3.07	124.93	384	2.79	121.65	340	2.41	123.43	297		8.27	123.39	1021	9.97	89.65	894	-17.0	37.6	14.2	-8.5	15.3	5.5	23.87	122.36	2921	0	31.97	88.94	2844	-25.3	37.6	2.7	-24.9	37.3	3.1
	Consumer Goods			560			482			557			566			651			634			636			595			599				1830			1779			2.9			41.3			5280	0			5700			-7.4			37.5
	Durable			280			226			263			234			256			245			264			286			310				859			751			14.3			10.4			2362	0			2098			12.6			22.7
	Passenger cars & motorized cycle			157			135			144			102			111			119			130			149			172				451			442			2.1			8.4			1220	0			1277			-4.4			36.7
	Home appliances			26			19			30			26			27			24			29			27			35				92			66			38.3			1.0			244	0			204			19.4			-2.4
	Misc. manufactures			97			71			89			106			117			102			104			110			102				316			243			30.1			17.2			898	0			617			45.5			8.9
	Non-Durable			280			257			294			331			395			390			373			309			289				0			1027			-100.0			77.7			2917	0			3602			-19.0			47.8
	Food & live animals chiefly for food			263			239			275			312			375			369			351			280			263				894			988			-9.5			82.7			2726	0			3494			-22.0			49.4
	Dairy products	30	2521	75	28	2421	67	26	2555	65	26	2880	74	27	3181	85	27	2863	78	31	2866	89	21	2842	59	23	2745	63		75	2822	212	77	2350	182	-3.1	20.1	16.4	10.9	60.3	77.7	238	2760	657	0	242	2187	529	-1.6	26.2	24.2	20.3	38.6	66.8
	Fish & fish preparation	21	688	15	16	622	10	15	1048	15	14	942	13	16	991	15	8	1082	9	14	844	12	17	965	17	14	776	11		45	869	40	31	744	23	47.8	16.8	72.5	-42.9	13.7	-35.1	136	866	117	0	116	723	84	16.6	19.8	39.6	-27.4	15.3	-16.3
	Rice	0	3397	0	3	638	2	0	3152	1	65	468	30	177	515	91	200	474	95	150	489	73	68	475	32	34	582	20		253	498	126	341	628	214	-26.0	-20.7	-41.3	234.7	28.6	330.3	698	495	345	0	2376	629	1493	-70.6	-21.3	-76.9	39.7	17.1	63.5
	Fruits & vegetables			24			22			27			24			23			21			20			24			21				65			53			24.0			11.2			205	0			161			27.6			2.3
	Others			150			138			166			170			161			165			156			148			148				452			516			-12.5			68.8			1401	0			1227			14.2			44.3
	Beverages & tobacco mfture.			3			5			5			4			4			5			4			7			7				17			12			43.3			-24.7			44	0			35			26.8			-3.6
	Articles of apparel, access.			14			13			14			15			16			16			18			22			19				60			28			116.1			27.7			148	0			73			101.2			16.6
	Special Transactions			77			54			64			70			61			92			73			93			75				240			222			8.4			61.8			653	0			643			1.6			64.0
	Articles temporarily imported & exported			21			14			17			21			17			43			27			48			20				95			71			33.9			38.6			228	0			216			5.3			39.2
	Others			55			40			47			49			44			49			46			46			54				145			150			-3.6			75.7			425	0			426			-0.3			80.4
	TOTAL IMPORTS 2/
	Trade Statistics		5372	5371		4831	4831		5618	5618		5558	5558		4963	4963		4981	4981		5497	5497		4998	4998		5139	5139				15634			15993			-2.2			31.1		46954	46954			45003	45003			4.3			33.5
	Conceptual and Coverage Adjustments 3/			21			28			61			41			31			18			32			47			65				144			140			2.9			241.5			344				405			-15.1			189.3
	TOTAL IMPORTS, BPM5			5392			4859			5679			5599			4994			4999			5529			5045			5204				15778			16133			-2.2			31.8			47298				45408			4.2			34.1
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, manufacture 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.
3/  Include adjustments on aircrafts both acquired under operational and financial agreements.
r/  Revised
p/  Preliminary
Note: Valuation adjustments include:
a.)   Adjustments to NSO's raw material imports for electronics exports' for 2010 and 2011.
b.)  Adjustments to NSO's raw material imports for garments for 2010 and 2011.
Components may not add up to total due to rounding.