The U.S. Census Bureau released its Merchandise Trade data numbers on August 11th for June 2010. The Merchandise Trade balance increased 54.1% over last June and 22.9% from the previous month. Imports grew by 8.4% from May and gained 33.0% over last year, while exports rose 1.4% from the previous month and increased 23.2% over June 2009.

Below is an in-depth breakdown of the U.S. Census Merchandise Trade data released last week. This month we have highlighted 5 interesting items that we found while looking at June's data; here are the highlights:

1. How shipments arrive indicates new trade trends
2. Extreme temperatures may lead to gains in U.S. wheat exports
3. Air exports show the seasonality of trade
4. Impact of Obama’s signing law to suspend some import duties
5. Evolving Harmonized System doesn’t react fast enough to new technologies
   

Click here for Zepol's U.S. Census Merchandise Trade Data Update for June 2010