External trade in goods, December 2019

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
	December 2019	November 2019 - December 2019	December 2018 - December 2019	December 2019	December 2018 - December 2019
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	84.4	3.5	5.9	903.9	-9.4
Crude oil	28.2	1.2	64.8	247.8	-5.2
Natural gas	16.9	59.8	-36.6	170.6	-35.7
Natural gas condensates	0.0	-93.3	-71.0	5.7	-14.9
Ships and oil platforms	0.2	-55.4	417.6	6.7	-20.0
Mainland exports	39.0	-7.0	9.3	473.0	3.9
Fish	9.3	-9.9	15.7	104.1	8.3

Imports	58.8	-7.6	10.1	755.6	6.4
Ships and oil platforms	0.7	23.7	598.0	6.8	141.2

The trade balance	25.6	42.7	-2.7	148.3	-48.3
The mainland trade balance	-19.1	9.6	-8.4	-275.7	-9.4