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Industrial product price indexes
(1997=100)
Relative importance
January 2007
December 2007r
January 2008p
January 2007 to January 2008
December 2007 to January 2008
% change
Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI) 100.00 115.5 114.4 115.4 -0.1 0.9
IPPI excluding petroleum and coal products 94.32 111.1 106.8 107.5 -3.2 0.7
Aggregation by commodities
Meat, fish and dairy products
5.78 109.0 108.2 108.2 -0.7 0.0
Fruit, vegetables, feeds and other food products
5.99 107.4 112.9 114.5 6.6 1.4
Beverages
1.57 124.1 125.5 125.5 1.1 0.0
Tobacco and tobacco products
0.63 203.5 218.4 218.4 7.3 0.0
Rubber, leather and plastic fabricated products
3.30 117.1 116.2 116.1 -0.9 -0.1
Textile products
1.58 100.9 99.2 99.4 -1.5 0.2
Knitted products and clothing
1.51 104.4 104.6 104.7 0.3 0.1
Lumber and other wood products
6.30 87.7 81.4 80.9 -7.8 -0.6
Furniture and fixtures
1.59 119.3 120.5 120.8 1.3 0.2
Pulp and paper products
7.23 108.8 101.5 102.3 -6.0 0.8
Printing and publishing
1.70 117.7 116.0 116.1 -1.4 0.1
Primary metal products
7.80 149.8 131.2 135.8 -9.3 3.5
Metal fabricated products
4.11 123.8 123.3 123.5 -0.2 0.2
Machinery and equipment
5.48 108.2 103.8 104.0 -3.9 0.2
Motor vehicles and other transport equipment
22.16 94.6 85.7 86.0 -9.1 0.4
Electrical and communications products
5.77 95.6 89.6 89.8 -6.1 0.2
Non-metallic mineral products
1.98 122.0 123.6 124.3 1.9 0.6
Petroleum and coal products1
5.68 197.3 254.4 259.4 31.5 2.0
Chemicals and chemical products
7.07 124.2 129.5 130.3 4.9 0.6
Miscellaneous manufactured products
2.40 114.6 113.8 115.3 0.6 1.3
Miscellaneous non-manufactured products
0.38 345.8 418.4 407.9 18.0 -2.5
Intermediate goods 2 60.14 120.0 119.4 120.6 0.5 1.0
First-stage intermediate goods3
7.71 157.2 147.4 149.4 -5.0 1.4
Second-stage intermediate goods4
52.43 114.4 115.2 116.3 1.7 1.0
Finished goods 5 39.86 108.8 106.9 107.5 -1.2 0.6
Finished foods and feeds
8.50 114.6 115.7 115.9 1.1 0.2
Capital equipment
11.73 102.1 95.3 95.6 -6.4 0.3
All other finished goods
19.63 110.3 110.0 110.9 0.5 0.8
r revised
p preliminary
1. This index is estimated for the current month.
2. Intermediate goods are goods used principally to produce other goods.
3. First-stage intermediate goods are items used most frequently to produce other intermediate goods.
4. Second-stage intermediate goods are items most commonly used to produce final goods.
5. Finished goods are goods most commonly used for immediate consumption or for capital investment.
Raw materials price indexes
(1997=100)
Relative importance
January 2007
December 2007r
January 2008p
January 2007 to January 2008
December 2007 to January 2008
% change
Raw Materials Price Index (RMPI) 100.00 160.9 182.6 188.8 17.3 3.4
Mineral fuels
35.16 229.0 304.5 317.9 38.8 4.4
Vegetable products
10.28 96.7 119.8 129.1 33.5 7.8
Animals and animal products
20.30 106.5 103.3 102.8 -3.5 -0.5
Wood
15.60 83.4 82.5 82.4 -1.2 -0.1
Ferrous materials
3.36 134.8 128.3 135.9 0.8 5.9
Non-ferrous metals
12.93 234.3 207.8 212.4 -9.3 2.2
Non-metallic minerals
2.38 146.9 150.7 154.5 5.2 2.5
RMPI excluding mineral fuels 64.84 129.5 126.3 129.2 -0.2 2.3
