External trade in goods, October 2018

Variants of the statistics:

External trade in goods¹
	NOK Billion	Change in per cent		NOK Billion - so far this year	Change in per cent - so far this year
	October 2018	September 2018 - October 2018	October 2017 - October 2018	October 2018	October 2017 - October 2018
¹The figures are marked with the symbol *. This is Statistics Norways standard symbol for indicating preliminary figures. Due 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 revisions. Please see tables 1-3 for the impact these figures have on the external trade.
Exports	99.5	20.0	32.2	827.7	17.6
Crude oil	28.8	12.2	64.0	227.5	24.9
Natural gas	27.0	41.4	35.9	207.4	27.6
Natural gas condensates	0.5	37.3	79.1	5.2	29.1
Ships and oil platforms	0.0	-99.5	-93.3	7.6	-20.5
Mainland exports	43.2	19.0	15.3	380.1	10.0
Fish	9.7	29.7	10.3	78.5	3.8

Imports	64.6	6.5	14.3	594.3	8.7
Ships and oil platforms	0.0	75.0	-97.0	2.1	-87.5

The trade balance	34.9	57.2	85.9	233.4	48.9
The mainland trade balance	-21.5	12.1	-13.8	-212.1	-14.7