Export and import price indices - January 2010
The year-on-year external trade price decrease speeded up
15.03.2010
Code: r-7201-10
In January 2010, export prices increased by 0.5% and import prices by 0.8%, month-on-month. Year-on-year, export prices decreased by 5.5% and import prices by 3.9%. The terms of trade figures reached 99.7%, m-o-m, and 98.3%, y-o-y.
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Month-on-month comparison:
- Exports: export prices increased by 0.5% (+0.9% in December). The growth of the total m-o-m export price index came mainly from a 2.7% price growth in ‘chemicals and related products, n.e.s’. The prices grew also in ‘crude materials, inedible, except fuels’ by 4.6% and in ‘food and live animals’ by 1.5%. The prices of ‘machinery and transport equipment’ increased by 0.2%. The price drop was registered only in ‘mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials’ (-3.2%).
- Imports: import prices increased by 0.8% (+1.7% in December). The growth of the total m-o-m import price index was driven mainly by a 4.0% increase in prices of ‘mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials’. The prices increased in ‘crude materials, inedible, except fuels’ (+1,6%), ‘food and live animals’ (+1.2%) and ‘machinery and transport equipment’ (+0.5%). On the decrease were only prices in ‘animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes’ (-1.7%).
- The terms of trade figures remained in negative values for the third month increasing slightly to 99.7% (99.2% in December). Negative values were recorded for ‘mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials’ (93.1%), ‘machinery and transport equipment’ (99.7%) and ‘miscellaneous manufactured articles’ (99.9%). Positive terms of trade figures, among sections important in terms of weight, were registered in ‘crude materials, inedible, except fuels’ (103.0%), ‘chemicals and related products, n.e.s’ (102.5%) and ‘manufactured goods classified chiefly by materials’ (100.1%).
Year-on-year comparison:
- Exports: export prices decreased for the sixth month in a row, this time by 5.5% (-3.9% in December). Change of the total y-o-y export price index was mainly affected by a 12.2% price drop in ’manufactured goods classified chiefly by material’. More marked price drops were recorded in ‘mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials’ (-14.6%), ‘machinery and transport equipment’ (-3.7%) and in ‘miscellaneous manufactured articles’ (-3.4%). Among important sections, price growths were reported only for ‘crude materials, inedible, except fuels’ (+9.8%) and ‘chemicals and related products, n.e.s’ (+1.1%).
- Imports: import prices decreased by 3.9% (-3.2% in December). The change of the total y-o-y import price index came mainly from a 4.5% price drop in ‘machinery and transport equipment'. Among important sections price drops were recorded in ‘crude materials, inedible, except fuels’ (-16.8%), ’manufactured goods classified chiefly by material’ (-5.0%), ‘miscellaneous manufactured articles’ (-4.8%) and ‘chemicals and related products, n.e.s’ (-3.7%). The price growth was observed only in ‘mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials’ (+7.2%).
- The terms of trade figures reached 98.3% (99.3% in December) and remained in negative values for the second month in a row. Negative values of the terms of trade figures were reported for ‘mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials' (79.7%) and ‘manufactured goods classified chiefly by material’ (92.4%). Among important sections, positive values of terms of trade figures were recorded in ‘crude materials, inedible, except fuels’ (132.0%), ‘chemicals and related products, n.e.s’ (105.0%), ‘miscellaneous manufactured articles’ (101.5%) and ‘machinery and transport equipment’ (100.8%).
Note:
Contact: Vladimír Klimeš, phone (+420 ) 274 054 102, e-mail: vladimir.klimes@czso.cz
Data source: CZSO survey
End of data collection: Last calendar day of the month
End of data processing: Import and export price indices: 15th calendar day after next month
Related publications: 7201-10 Import and Export Price Indices in the Czech Republic
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Published: 15.03.2010
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