NEWS RELEASE PRICES 30 MAY 2007

The producer price index (PPI) in April 2007 is 121.3 points, 0.5% lower than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products is 126.4 points, 0.4% higher than in March (effect on the index 0.2%), and the PPI for power intensive industry products is 147.0 points, 3.6% lower than in the previous month (0.1%). The PPI for food products rose by 0.1% (0.0%) from March while the PPI for other manufactured products remained unchanged from the previous month.

The PPI for domestically sold products was 0.1% higher than in the previous month (0.1%) while the index for exported products declined 0.9% from March (-0.6%).

From April 2006, the PPI has risen by 3.9%. Over the last twelve months the PPI for fish products has increased by 6.7%, the PPI for power intensive industry products by 1.2% and the PPI for food products by 4.9%.

Monthly changes (%)
2007 PPI Marine Power intensive Food  Domestic Exported
    products industry products production sales products
January 0.9 0.4 4.1 0.7 0.2 1.3
February -3.1 -3.5 -3.7 0.7 -0.2 -4.8
March 0.0 -0.3 0.4 -0.4 0.6 -0.3
April -0.5 0.4 -3.6 0.1 0.1 -0.9

 

Annual changes (%)
2007 PPI Marine Power intensive Food  Domestic Exported
    products industry products production sales products
January 22.4 28.6 42.0 7.1 8.0 30.9
February 15.6 23.1 24.9 6.8 7.1 20.2
March 9.5 14.4 12.2 5.8 7.3 10.4
April 3.9 6.7 1.2 4.9 6.9 2.1

Statistics

Further Information

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