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In June producer prices in Latvian industry grew by 0.6%

Rita Brice, csb.gov, 21.07.2014.Print version
Compared to May, producer prices in industry in June 2014 rose by 0.6%, according to the data of Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Both prices of products sold on the domestic market and prices of exported products increased by 0.6%; of which in exports to euro area countries reduced by 0.1% and in exports to non-euro area countries rose by 1.0%. Over the month producer price changes were mostly affected by price growth in electricity, steam and air conditioning supply.

In June 2014 compared to June 2013, the overall level of producer prices in the Latvian industry increased by 0.4%. The producer prices of products sold on the domestic market rose by 0.3%, but prices of exported products grew by 0.6%. The most significant increasing impact had the price rise in the manufacture of wood and wood products, except furniture (by 0.8 percentage points), but the greatest decreasing impact had reduction of prices in manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products (by 0.6 percentage points).


Producer price changes in June 2014

 

Weights (%)

Price changes (%) in June 2014

compared to

May 2014

June 2013

Total industrial production

100.0

0.6

0.4

 

Mining and quarrying

2.1

0.2

-0.2

 

Manufacturing

73.5

0.4

0.7

 

Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

20.4

1.5

-0.3

 

Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

4.0

0.1

0.7

Products sold on the domestic market

100.0

0.6

0.3

 

Mining and quarrying

1.6

0.2

1.0

 

Manufacturing

54.8

0.1

1.3

 

Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

36.9

1.4

-1.5

 

Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

6.7

0.0

2.2

Exported products

100.0

0.6

0.6

 

of which:

 

 

 

 

mining and quarrying

2.6

0.1

-0.9

 

manufacturing

94.0

0.6

0.2

 

water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

1.2

0.9

-5.0

 

This year data on producer prices are provided by more than 660 enterprises which, for the calculation of index, each month provide CSB with around 3.1 thousand prices, of which 1.6 thousand is on products sold on the domestic market and 1.5 thousand - on exported products and industrial services.





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