Padang, West Sumatra (ANTARA News) - West Sumatra`s imports in June 2011 rose 0.24 percent to US$84.7 million from US$84.5 million in the previous month.

The imports were dominated by mineral fuels which accounted for US$62.2 million of the imports overall value in June 2011, Muchsin Ayub, head of West Sumatra`s statistics office, said here on Thursday.

The second biggest portion in West Sumatra imports consisted of fertilizers worth US$15.3 million, followed by wheat US$2.4 million, machinery and electrical appliances US$2.4 million and salt and sulfur US$1.4 million.

The five groups of commodities made up 95.38 percent of the overall imports in June 2011, he said.

Cumulatively, imports in the first half of 2011 reached a total value of US$455.6 million, a 34.65 percent increase compared to US$338.3 million in the same period last year.
(T.F011/S012/HAJM)

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