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Table 2 Raw materials price indexes

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Raw materials price indexes
  Relative importance1 September 2008 August 2009r September 2009p September 2008 to September 2009 August to September 2009
  (1997=100) % change
Raw Materials Price Index (RMPI) 100.00 200.6 159.3 157.6 -21.4 -1.1
Mineral fuels 35.16 361.9 249.8 246.0 -32.0 -1.5
Vegetable products 10.28 122.7 108.8 103.2 -15.9 -5.1
Animals and animal products 20.30 113.1 107.5 107.2 -5.2 -0.3
Wood 15.60 81.9 75.9 76.0 -7.2 0.1
Ferrous materials 3.36 167.2 130.2 129.4 -22.6 -0.6
Non-ferrous metals 12.93 176.2 170.9 172.1 -2.3 0.7
Non-metallic minerals 2.38 175.7 174.6 174.6 -0.6 0.0
RMPI excluding mineral fuels 64.84 126.1 117.5 116.8 -7.4 -0.6
revised
preliminary
The relative importance is based on the 1997 values of intermediate inputs at December 1996 prices.