To promote greater completeness in our published trade data, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade applies a series of adjustments to the monthly data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

These adjustments are outlined in the document below. We recommend reading this document carefully before using data from our time series data and pivot table products.

• DFAT adjustments to ABS official trade data [PDF 375 KB]
• DFAT adjustments to ABS official trade data [DOCX 220 KB]

A second document – Appendix A – shows which countries have actually reported import and export totals for each six-month period. Tables 1a and 1b provide coverage to the present day (January 2013 to present for exports and July 2013 to present for imports), while tables 2a and 2b provide a historical summary (all periods prior to 2018).

We strongly recommend referring to Appendix A when interpreting our time series data, especially the country and commodity pivot tables.

• Appendix A (table 1a and 1b) – actual export/import partner country data [PDF 114 KB]
• Appendix A (table 1a and 1b) – actual export/import partner country data [XLSX 41 KB]
   
• Appendix A (table 2a and 2b) – actual export/import partner country data [PDF 179 KB]
• Appendix A (table 2a and 2b) – actual export/import partner country data [XLSX 46 KB]

Please email comments regarding all our trade statistical products to statssection@dfat.gov.au.