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• NEW Discontinuation of Selected Services Indexes

• BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 15, International Price Indexes
• Technical Note
• Addendum
• Explanation of Import/Export Series Codes
• Import/Export Services Fact Sheets
• Air Freight (HTML) (PDF)
• Air Passenger Fares (HTML) (PDF)
• Crude Oil Tanker Freight (HTML) (PDF)
• Ocean Liner Freight (HTML) (PDF)
• Postsecondary Education (HTML) (PDF)
• Travel and Tourism (HTML) (PDF)
• Publications Using International Price Program Data
• "Price and Expenditure Measures of Petroleum Products: A Comparison" by Abby Duly, Jeffrey Harris, Ara Khatchadourian, Rozi Ulics, and Melissa Wolter
• "Import Price Rise in 2005 Due to Continued High Energy Prices" by Jeffrey Bogen
• "IPP Introduces Additional Locality of Origin Import Price Indexes" by Helen McCulley and Melissa Schwartz
• "U.S. Import and Export Prices in 2004" by Kristen Locatelli
• "U.S. Import and Export Prices in 2003" by Melissa Schwartz
• "International Price Comparisons Based on Purchasing Power Parity" by Michelle Vachris and James Thomas
• "Using Dissaggregated Data to Dissect the U.S. Trade Deficit" by William Alterman
• "Coping with the Rising Yen: Japan's Recent Export Experience" by Thomas Klitgaard
• "Are Producer Prices Good Proxies for Export Prices?" by Bill Alterman
• "Exchange Rate Pass-Through into Import Prices: A Macro or Micro Phenomenon?" by Jose Manuel Campa and Linda S. Goldberg
• "Imputation and Price Indexes: Theory and Evidence from the International Price Program" by Robert C. Feenstra and Erwin W. Diewert
• "Explaining Tranquility in the Midst of Turbulence: U.S. Multinationals' Intrafirm Trade, 1966-1997" by Subramanian Rangan
• "Transfer Pricing, Intrafirm Trade and the BLS International Price Program" by Lorraine Eden
• "The Behavior of Intrafirm Trade Prices in U.S. International Price Data" by Kimberly A. Clausing
• "Exchange Rates and the Prices of Manufacturing Products Imported into the United States" by Giovanni P. Olivei

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• Foreign Labor Statistics--Comparative information by country on productivity and unit labor costs; compensation; labor force, employment, and unemployment; and consumer prices.

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• Harmonized Manuals
• Schedule B
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