External trade in goods, February 2013

Variants of the statistics:

External trade in goods
	NOK Million	Change in per cent		NOK Million - so far this year	Change in per cent - so far this year
	February 2013	January 2013 - February 2013	February 2012 - February 2013	February 2013	February 2012 - February 2013
¹Due to the data collection method, the preliminary monthly figures published for ships and oil platforms are often incomplete. In retrospect, therefore, the trade in these goods could in some cases lead to major corrections in the figures. Please see tables 2-4 for the impact these figures have on the external trade.
Imports	40 127	-6.6	-0.7	83 081	4.9
Ships and oil platforms¹	646	-36.3	-41.2	1 660	63.7

Exports	72 991	-3.7	-14.7	148 821	-11.6
Crude oil	24 018	13.9	-21.4	45 108	-21.2
Natural gas	19 284	-13.4	-18.6	41 549	-14.8
Natural gas condensates	476	-60.6	-57.5	1 673	-19.7
Ships and oil platforms¹	415	-5.7	42.6	855	67.3
Mainland exports	28 809	-6.5	-3.6	59 637	-0.3

The trade balance	32 863	0.0	-27.2	65 740	-26.3
The mainland trade balance	-10 672	4.0	-13.2	-21 784	24.5