IPP introduces additional Locality of Origin import price indexes.(Program Report)(International Price Program)(United States trade with other countries)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: McCulley, Helen; Schwartz, Melissa | Copyright information

The International Price Program (IPP) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as the primary source of data on price changes in the foreign sector, publishes monthly indexes of import and export prices for U.S. merchandise. (1) While such indexes convey price information across product categories of goods traded between the United States and the rest of the world, there is evidence that price trends further vary by the geographic source of the product being traded. (2) U.S. Locality of ...

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Table 13. Commodity price indexes deleted from the Producer Price Index, effective July 2006.
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