The producer price index (PPI) in November 2008 was 197.1 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 5.4% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 248.3 points which is 9.9% higher than in October (effect on the index 3.0%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 254.5 points, 2.2% higher (0.6%). The PPI for food products was 3.7% higher than in October (0.6%) and the PPI for other manufactured products increased by 4.4% (1.3%).
The PPI for domestically sold products was 2.7% higher than in the previous month
(1.2%) while the index for exported products increased 6.8% (4.2%).
From November 2007 the PPI has increased 68.5%. The PPI for fish products has increased 93.1% and the PPI for power intensive industry products has risen 101.2%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose 22.4%.
| Monthly changes (%) | ||||||
| Marine | Power intensive | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | industry products | production | sales | products | |
| 2007 | ||||||
| November | 1.0 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 1.0 | -1.1 | 2.3 |
| December | 2.2 | 2.0 | 4.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | ||||||
| January | 2.0 | 3.1 | -0.8 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 1.5 |
| February | 3.1 | 3.1 | 6.0 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 4.1 |
| March | 9.2 | 12.6 | 20.8 | 1.0 | -0.9 | 15.1 |
| April | 6.3 | 3.2 | 11.7 | 6.3 | 6.7 | 6.1 |
| May | 1.1 | -0.4 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 0.4 |
| June | 3.7 | 7.4 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 5.6 |
| July | 2.4 | -0.3 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 2.0 |
| August | 1.9 | 0.2 | 7.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.8 |
| September | 3.9 | 8.6 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 5.4 |
| October | 12.7 | 20.3 | 14.7 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 17.8 |
| November | 5.4 | 9.9 | 2.2 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 6.8 |
| Annual changes (%) | ||||||
| Marine | Power intensive | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | industry products | production | sales | products | |
| 2007 | ||||||
| November | -4.6 | -0.8 | -14.3 | 5.2 | 0.7 | -7.8 |
| December | -4.2 | 0.7 | -12.6 | 3.6 | -0.2 | -6.6 |
| 2008 | ||||||
| January | -3.1 | 3.4 | -16.8 | 4.3 | 2.5 | -6.4 |
| February | 3.1 | 10.5 | -8.4 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 2.4 |
| March | 12.5 | 24.8 | 10.3 | 5.6 | 2.5 | 18.3 |
| April | 20.3 | 28.3 | 27.8 | 12.1 | 9.2 | 26.6 |
| May | 24.7 | 33.4 | 29.9 | 13.7 | 12.5 | 31.7 |
| June | 29.5 | 44.7 | 36.1 | 14.1 | 12.0 | 40.1 |
| July | 35.7 | 44.3 | 48.3 | 14.4 | 16.8 | 47.4 |
| August | 31.9 | 36.7 | 46.4 | 15.2 | 16.3 | 41.1 |
| September | 39.6 | 47.3 | 62.0 | 15.9 | 17.8 | 53.1 |
| October | 61.4 | 80.4 | 101.5 | 19.2 | 21.5 | 87.9 |
| November | 68.5 | 93.1 | 101.2 | 22.4 | 26.3 | 96.1 |
In evaluating the price changes accounted for here, it may be taken into consideration that the trade-weighted average price of foreign exchange in November 2008 was 13.5% higher than in the preceding month and 93.3% higher than in November 2007.
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