U.S. Import And Export Price Indexes — 2004-09-09

The U.S. Import Price Index rose 1.7 percent in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Higher prices for both petroleum and nonpetroleum imports contributed to the overall increase. In contrast, August export prices fell 0.5 percent as lower prices for agricultural exports more than offset an increase in nonagricultural export prices. Percent changes in import and export price indexes by End Use category -not seasonally adjusted- Month Non- Agri- Nonagri- All Petroleum petroleum All cultural cultural Imports Imports Imports Exports Exports Exports 2003 August 0.0 1.8 -0.3 0.0 -1.0 0.1 September -0.5 -5.8 0.3 0.4 5.4 -0.1 October 0.1 1.6 -0.1 0.2 2.4 0.1 November 0.5 2.1 0.2 0.5 4.0 0.1 December 0.7 5.1 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 2004 January 1.5 7.3 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 February 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.7 1.5 0.6 March 0.8 5.1 0.2 0.8 3.5 0.5 April 0.2 -0.2 0.3 0.7 2.5 0.5 May 1.5 9.4 r 0.2