Table 7 U.S. Import Price Indexes, by Locality of Origin

Table 7. U.S. import price indexes and percent changes by locality of origin: December 2008 to December 2009 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Description Percent
of
U.S.
imports(1)		 Index Percent change
Nov.
2009		 Dec.
2009		 Annual Monthly
Dec.
2008
to
Dec.
2009		 Aug.
2009
to
Sept.
2009		 Sept.
2009
to
Oct.
2009		 Oct.
2009
to
Nov.
2009		 Nov.
2009
to
Dec.
2009

Industrialized Countries(2)

 42.434 123.1 123.9 4.0 0.4 0.9 1.3 0.6

Nonmanufactured articles

 4.390 196.0 196.5 27.2 -0.5 5.9 9.4 0.3

Manufactured articles

 37.621 117.2 118.0 2.0 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.7

Other Countries(3)

 57.566 122.3 122.2 9.9 -0.2 0.7 1.2 -0.1

Nonmanufactured articles

 12.442 251.9 246.6 53.9 -0.6 3.2 5.5 -2.1

Manufactured articles

 44.910 104.1 104.7 1.3 0.0 -0.2 0.0 0.6

Canada

 15.963 136.5 137.6 6.0 1.1 1.1 2.9 0.8

Nonmanufactured articles

 3.979 190.0 190.3 26.2 -0.7 6.4 10.5 0.2

Manufactured articles

 11.678 126.5 127.7 0.7 1.5 -0.2 0.7 0.9

European Union(4)

 17.447 126.8 127.0 2.2 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.2

Nonmanufactured articles

 0.222 244.3 239.7 3.9 -2.0 3.8 0.0 -1.9

Manufactured articles

 17.133 124.3 124.6 2.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.2

France (Dec. 2003=100)

 1.954 124.0 124.1 5.2 0.8 0.1 0.7 0.1

Germany (Dec. 2003=100)

 4.735 111.5 111.9 3.4 0.4 0.7 0.5 0.4

United Kingdom (Dec. 2003=100)

 2.660 123.5 124.2 4.8 0.2 1.0 0.4 0.6

Latin America(5)

 17.808 154.6 154.5 14.1 0.1 1.8 2.2 -0.1

Nonmanufactured articles

 5.160 280.3 274.3 51.1 -0.8 3.2 5.6 -2.1

Manufactured articles

 12.547 128.6 129.9 1.7 0.5 1.0 0.6 1.0

Mexico (Dec. 2003=100)

 10.785 136.6 135.4 4.5 0.5 1.1 1.0 -0.9

Nonmanufactured articles (Dec. 2008=100)

 1.947 149.2 144.0 44.0 0.1 4.6 5.0 -3.5

Manufactured articles (Dec. 2008=100)

 8.788 96.2 96.2 -3.8 0.7 0.1 -0.3 0.0

Pacific Rim (Dec. 2003=100)(6)

 33.590 99.9 100.3 -0.5 0.1 -0.1 0.1 0.4

China (Dec. 2003=100)

 16.852 100.4 100.5 -1.9 -0.1 -0.1 0.0 0.1

Japan

 7.488 97.5 97.8 1.9 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.3

Asian NICs(7)

 5.647 85.8 86.6 -2.9 0.2 -0.3 0.0 0.9

ASEAN (Dec. 2003=100)(8)

 5.729 96.9 97.5 0.2 -0.1 -0.6 0.4 0.6

Asia Near East (Dec. 2003=100)(9)

 3.992 202.0 198.2 40.1 0.2 3.3 1.3 -1.9

Footnotes
 (1) Percentage of trade figures are based on 2007 trade values.
(2) Includes Western Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
(3) Includes Eastern Europe, Latin America, OPEC countries, and other countries in Asia, Africa and the Western Hemisphere.
(4) Includes European Union countries.
(5) Includes Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
(6) Includes China, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Macao, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Asian Newly Industrialized Countries.
(7) Asian Newly Industrialized Countries. Includes Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
(8) Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
(9) Includes Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

NOTES: Data may be revised in each of the three months after original publication.
Regions are not mutually exclusive.
Dash = Not available

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