Import/Export Price Indexes

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PAPERS & ARTICLES USING MXP DATA
- "Price Measures of New Vehicles: A Comparison" by Maria Bustinza, Thaddious Foster, Tod Reese, David Yochum, and Daniel Chow.
- Import and Export Price Trends in 2006" by Carol Rowan and Sonya Wahi-Miller
- "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
- "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
IMPORT PRICES BY SELECTED LOCALITIES
SELECTED IMPORT INDEXES
SELECTED EXPORT INDEXES

Table 6. U.S. export price indexes for selected categories of goods 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Category	Harmo- nized system	Relative import- ance Aug. 2008(1)	Months
Category	Harmo- nized system	Relative import- ance Aug. 2008(1)	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
Live animals; animal products	I	1.704
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	86.7
1993			87.9	86.9	88.6	89.7	91.7	91.2	85.9	87.4	86.2	83.9	84.7	85.6
1994			86.0	85.0	89.5	91.9	92.9	90.0	90.4	94.1	94.2	96.4	98.0	96.3
1995			96.6	98.2	102.2	103.3	102.8	104.2	104.4	103.9	105.3	104.3	103.7	102.7
1996			99.0	97.5	96.4	95.5	95.2	98.9	100.8	103.2	100.9	101.5	102.7	102.2
1997			100.1	97.8	98.4	98.0	97.0	96.3	97.3	99.9	100.0	99.3	98.8	97.9
1998			94.7	90.9	92.1	92.1	93.3	95.2	97.0	99.6	96.1	96.3	94.5	93.1
1999			94.2	95.9	95.0	95.0	97.4	98.3	97.9	97.2	96.9	97.7	97.9	99.7
2000			98.3	97.9	97.3	97.9	99.6	102.2	101.2	100.1	100.4	102.6	102.2	100.3
2001			101.2	101.3	102.5	103.9	102.6	103.1	103.3	102.6	104.2	103.9	98.3	97.4
2002			95.6	93.5	95.2	94.3	94.0	94.3	92.6	92.9	93.6	93.8	92.8	94.6
2003			94.6	98.1	100.1	100.5	103.4	104.5	105.2	110.1	114.7	117.3	119.4	117.5
2004			116.7	118.2	120.6	122.2	122.6	121.5	117.6	118.9	119.4	122.3	122.3	122.1
2005			119.0	120.8	123.0	125.8	130.7	130.9	129.9	132.0	134.6	135.0	134.0	131.2
2006			128.9	128.0	124.3	120.0	121.8	125.1	130.5	135.0	134.9	133.7	131.6	132.1
2007			135.4	142.6	147.2	149.6	150.3	153.2	157.0	159.8	160.5	155.9	154.1	156.3
2008			157.6	157.2	162.6	166.3	170.2	174.5	178.0	181.9	184.0	-	-	-

Meat & edible meat offal (Dec. 2006=100)	02	0.953
2006			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100.0
2007			104.4	109.4	113.6	115.0	119.3	124.8	127.0	129.9	131.7	127.6	124.7	124.9
2008			123.2	124.5	131.3	137.3	142.0	145.4	148.8	155.4	156.8	-	-	-

Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates	03	0.421
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	76.1
1993			-	-	79.3	-	-	81.7	-	-	76.4	-	-	74.4
1994			76.4	74.5	80.5	86.0	88.6	84.7	87.2	94.8	93.7	97.5	98.1	97.3
1995			97.7	101.8	107.2	108.5	107.9	108.2	107.3	105.3	106.7	105.3	101.5	97.5
1996			94.3	93.9	91.2	88.1	88.9	92.8	97.1	99.0	97.3	98.2	101.7	101.4
1997			99.2	92.2	91.0	89.2	88.2	87.4	89.2	97.5	100.5	99.5	97.0	96.2
1998			91.5	80.3	83.9	83.6	84.6	83.6	91.2	97.4	93.7	95.5	95.6	94.4
1999			99.2	101.1	106.3	111.6	118.1	117.1	109.4	100.6	98.4	100.5	99.7	99.9
2000			99.2	103.3	98.8	97.8	97.1	99.1	99.4	103.3	100.6	102.6	100.8	97.9
2001			102.0	98.9	100.0	96.7	87.7	87.4	90.4	84.1	87.7	86.5	85.2	86.7
2002			91.8	90.4	94.8	91.9	92.1	98.4	97.6	98.3	99.0	99.9	99.8	100.2
2003			101.3	103.1	109.1	106.4	109.3	109.6	108.1	109.3	102.5	99.2	101.7	103.1
2004			104.2	105.7	106.9	108.8	107.9	105.2	105.0	105.5	108.2	109.8	110.9	113.8
2005			114.0	113.6	116.6	114.7	114.7	114.2	117.8	120.8	120.3	121.5	121.8	122.7
2006			121.6	123.6	122.3	121.0	121.2	122.8	123.7	125.2	124.0	121.1	118.2	119.2
2007			118.7	121.2	124.1	131.5	126.0	124.3	126.6	129.2	130.4	132.3	131.7	136.4
2008			144.1	148.3	153.0	150.7	149.0	149.1	149.9	149.1	148.8	-	-	-

Vegetable products	II	5.146
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	106.9
1993			108.1	107.8	108.0	108.3	108.9	103.8	113.8	113.8	112.7	113.6	118.1	123.7
1994			128.5	123.6	123.5	118.2	119.8	116.0	111.5	108.2	108.2	107.5	109.4	113.5
1995			112.0	113.0	114.6	118.5	120.6	122.2	130.4	129.9	136.1	140.7	144.8	145.9
1996			152.3	153.5	156.9	169.7	176.7	171.1	167.6	165.2	142.9	135.7	132.8	130.5
1997			131.0	135.6	138.6	138.3	135.6	130.3	128.7	128.3	128.2	124.9	126.9	126.0
1998			122.8	122.0	121.0	117.2	117.8	114.9	116.2	107.8	102.8	104.2	108.9	110.2
1999			110.3	106.4	103.0	104.5	105.3	104.9	99.9	102.2	102.3	100.4	98.8	97.3
2000			99.9	102.7	103.0	103.7	103.9	100.0	96.5	92.1	97.5	98.0	100.2	102.4
2001			103.8	100.7	102.0	99.4	98.9	99.7	102.1	103.6	102.8	100.4	101.0	102.9
2002			106.0	101.6	102.3	103.5	103.6	105.0	110.6	113.3	119.9	116.2	120.2	117.4
2003			117.3	114.9	113.5	113.4	117.7	115.0	114.4	110.2	118.0	120.2	125.9	129.1
2004			130.4	135.1	143.4	150.8	152.3	140.3	138.2	119.1	124.9	122.7	125.3	121.7
2005			122.9	121.1	126.3	124.8	128.0	130.3	130.7	129.1	123.9	124.7	123.8	123.4
2006			125.7	123.8	124.7	124.6	125.2	131.0	133.6	135.0	133.9	137.5	148.3	152.3
2007			151.6	155.9	160.6	155.8	154.6	159.3	163.3	165.3	178.4	191.8	194.2	202.2
2008			219.2	233.2	245.1	234.6	233.3	239.3	261.4	221.1	223.7	-	-	-

Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons	08	0.683
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	95.5
1993			96.3	98.1	98.7	99.6	102.4	98.5	104.9	104.2	113.3	118.3	114.1	110.7
1994			107.6	104.1	105.0	99.9	102.8	100.6	105.2	107.2	100.8	96.8	93.7	96.5
1995			95.8	103.0	104.5	100.2	104.2	112.1	122.0	126.3	139.4	135.4	129.2	124.2
1996			119.2	118.7	123.2	124.1	120.9	123.3	121.8	123.9	128.8	130.7	123.2	116.4
1997			116.0	117.6	114.1	113.9	114.6	118.2	125.4	120.5	112.4	118.0	103.4	109.0
1998			108.5	105.2	105.7	108.3	108.1	111.4	116.7	117.3	117.0	118.1	116.3	115.2
1999			117.4	117.5	115.2	118.1	122.2	121.3	123.6	115.3	112.0	119.4	111.8	103.7
2000			106.4	106.8	106.0	102.7	97.1	94.8	101.5	95.2	102.4	99.2	98.2	89.8
2001			91.5	89.3	90.1	94.7	93.0	94.6	101.4	99.4	95.3	100.0	101.3	101.8
2002			98.7	93.3	92.8	92.1	103.2	97.6	97.1	98.8	98.9	97.4	96.3	95.5
2003			92.2	91.7	86.8	89.6	93.3	97.3	94.5	93.7	94.8	96.0	95.9	96.1
2004			94.7	98.5	101.9	103.0	105.0	109.2	107.2	107.9	112.3	123.3	131.5	132.7
2005			133.7	133.7	119.4	122.5	125.9	126.5	124.3	121.9	123.7	125.2	122.6	116.1
2006			113.8	109.8	107.6	111.5	110.6	114.5	122.9	122.1	118.6	110.3	106.3	112.8
2007			112.8	113.8	112.4	125.7	120.3	117.5	115.0	119.5	122.7	126.3	126.4	121.3
2008			123.0	122.1	121.2	122.4	122.1	123.0	121.2	124.0	119.2	-	-	-

Cereals	10	2.139
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	116.4
1993			116.2	115.4	115.2	116.5	116.7	108.5	119.2	119.4	114.8	119.1	128.4	135.4
1994			143.1	136.7	135.9	128.6	129.5	123.8	115.0	111.7	114.7	117.6	118.9	123.5
1995			122.7	124.9	123.3	128.0	132.6	137.6	148.7	147.3	154.2	163.0	171.5	173.9
1996			181.5	185.1	191.3	212.3	226.0	215.3	208.1	203.2	158.1	150.3	145.4	143.9
1997			141.2	147.5	150.6	150.1	142.4	131.1	127.5	132.6	135.4	133.2	135.3	134.6
1998			126.2	130.2	128.4	121.8	121.6	116.3	115.8	104.2	97.0	102.1	109.3	110.6
1999			111.5	109.4	106.2	107.5	106.8	106.2	98.6	102.5	101.6	96.5	97.7	95.3
2000			99.1	103.9	104.4	103.8	105.3	100.0	92.6	88.1	94.1	98.7	103.6	106.3
2001			110.6	106.8	108.4	104.2	104.4	102.5	101.9	104.5	106.4	103.6	105.0	107.3
2002			108.6	105.9	105.2	105.1	103.5	106.6	113.3	121.3	136.3	132.8	134.0	128.1
2003			124.4	124.7	123.5	121.0	125.8	119.3	115.8	116.0	125.6	120.2	126.9	132.7
2004			132.8	136.7	141.5	150.8	148.7	143.3	128.6	120.3	122.1	114.5	111.7	115.5
2005			118.6	115.3	121.4	116.0	115.1	118.1	119.9	117.9	116.3	122.0	119.9	121.4
2006			124.8	127.2	129.9	129.2	129.9	136.9	140.1	138.6	140.9	150.6	171.0	175.0
2007			167.1	177.3	183.8	165.4	174.3	179.2	174.7	179.7	201.2	221.3	220.0	239.6
2008			262.3	293.9	313.1	304.4	292.3	293.6	322.8	246.3	267.5	-	-	-

Wheat and meslin	1001	0.606
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	119.4
1993			-	-	114.3	-	-	98.0	-	-	109.0	-	-	104.9
1994			117.5	108.3	113.2	104.1	118.0	95.8	100.5	104.6	110.5	129.5	132.8	132.4
1995			124.7	125.3	117.9	123.0	131.1	132.8	155.6	154.2	161.9	168.0	174.3	177.7
1996			174.6	183.1	182.6	199.1	205.9	188.2	171.4	163.2	147.5	149.0	147.9	144.8
1997			144.1	141.6	145.3	155.8	143.7	126.7	123.3	133.1	134.8	130.5	132.6	131.9
1998			121.0	124.4	122.2	118.2	115.5	109.6	106.7	95.2	92.0	104.9	112.0	111.2
1999			110.6	106.6	102.2	104.5	102.1	101.4	96.5	99.1	103.3	99.0	99.0	92.9
2000			95.3	99.4	98.1	96.9	101.2	99.4	98.6	91.0	98.8	105.1	106.7	109.4
2001			111.8	109.8	112.8	108.2	112.7	111.3	106.7	107.0	109.6	111.5	115.0	113.0
2002			117.2	112.7	111.8	113.5	109.7	113.4	124.7	131.3	155.6	158.0	158.9	145.1
2003			134.9	135.2	132.7	124.9	130.8	121.4	116.9	128.4	132.0	127.6	133.3	143.4
2004			141.1	139.1	140.0	147.6	146.5	136.2	130.3	123.0	126.3	128.4	132.8	131.5
2005			134.7	132.9	137.2	128.5	128.3	130.0	129.6	127.1	129.9	141.2	137.0	138.0
2006			139.0	141.0	145.1	141.7	145.2	154.3	161.5	154.0	156.9	165.2	173.1	173.4
2007			164.2	167.3	174.0	168.6	177.0	180.4	199.6	213.8	260.9	310.3	286.1	328.2
2008			348.7	415.9	426.9	351.0	292.2	276.7	282.0	239.6	255.1	-	-	-

Corn (maize)	1005	1.171
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	116.0
1993			-	-	117.1	-	-	116.3	-	-	120.8	-	-	150.4
1994			156.3	150.7	147.6	141.1	135.5	140.0	123.5	116.6	119.1	113.8	113.4	121.1
1995			124.3	127.9	129.6	135.3	138.1	144.6	150.2	148.1	156.9	165.6	174.1	176.4
1996			191.4	193.4	204.9	231.6	253.2	243.9	242.9	240.4	168.6	155.4	148.0	147.1
1997			142.2	154.6	157.5	148.9	142.6	133.5	129.7	132.5	137.3	136.1	138.2	137.1
1998			129.4	134.4	133.0	123.8	125.3	119.5	120.6	106.9	96.5	97.3	105.5	108.2
1999			110.6	109.7	106.6	108.0	108.9	108.3	98.1	103.2	99.2	93.1	96.0	96.0
2000			101.0	107.4	109.3	108.8	109.1	101.0	88.9	84.9	90.4	94.4	100.7	104.1
2001			109.8	104.7	105.7	101.6	98.6	95.9	99.0	103.4	105.1	99.1	99.7	104.6
2002			104.6	102.8	102.3	101.3	100.9	104.8	109.5	118.7	130.9	122.8	124.7	122.2
2003			121.4	122.0	122.4	122.0	126.7	121.3	118.4	110.2	122.3	115.2	123.8	126.8
2004			127.3	135.8	142.7	153.9	150.1	146.9	125.0	116.4	118.7	104.9	99.0	106.7
2005			110.3	104.8	113.1	109.9	107.6	111.8	117.1	114.2	108.2	111.2	109.5	111.8
2006			116.3	118.3	120.8	121.4	120.3	127.1	127.8	129.9	131.2	143.7	176.1	183.1
2007			173.8	191.3	200.0	169.4	181.7	189.8	169.0	168.1	174.7	179.1	192.0	198.1
2008			222.9	241.6	262.7	277.6	277.4	286.4	332.4	233.8	261.9	-	-	-

Oilseeds and misc. grains, seeds, fruits, plants, straw and fodder	12	1.664
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	104.2
1993			106.1	106.5	108.1	110.2	111.0	109.8	125.1	127.5	121.1	112.5	115.7	124.8
1994			128.3	125.4	125.6	122.8	124.2	125.1	115.1	106.6	107.8	99.1	101.2	103.9
1995			104.0	103.9	105.7	108.8	107.3	109.4	113.1	112.7	116.0	120.3	125.8	127.0
1996			135.7	133.6	132.8	141.6	142.5	140.6	144.3	146.4	145.8	127.6	129.4	128.7
1997			135.4	141.1	147.6	148.5	150.1	148.2	143.0	134.4	135.4	124.4	134.5	132.1
1998			127.0	129.0	125.4	122.4	122.6	119.2	122.2	110.3	106.5	102.0	108.2	110.8
1999			107.1	101.0	94.6	96.6	96.3	95.4	88.6	95.1	99.1	97.0	93.9	95.6
2000			96.9	100.9	102.0	105.0	105.6	102.8	97.1	94.7	100.2	97.7	96.0	101.2
2001			100.1	94.6	95.3	91.5	92.6	96.4	102.3	103.5	98.8	92.9	92.9	94.3
2002			95.1	93.3	95.6	96.9	97.8	104.7	117.0	113.8	114.4	108.4	116.6	116.0
2003			118.6	116.3	116.2	118.3	125.8	121.5	122.7	109.3	119.6	133.1	145.8	147.1
2004			151.2	154.3	171.9	185.2	187.0	161.0	174.7	117.5	124.7	111.2	112.3	113.0
2005			117.7	113.1	129.6	125.9	128.5	136.2	136.8	135.6	123.7	119.6	122.2	122.3
2006			125.5	121.4	122.4	116.1	121.6	121.5	124.4	122.1	118.6	120.7	135.0	135.9
2007			134.6	144.9	146.8	148.5	143.8	157.4	167.3	166.0	174.6	185.7	195.1	208.7
2008			230.2	242.3	262.2	233.7	238.4	259.3	298.9	249.3	238.7	-	-	-

Soybeans, whether or not broken (Dec. 2001=100)	1201	1.295
2001			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100.0
2002			101.0	98.7	101.6	103.9	105.3	114.3	130.6	125.9	126.6	118.7	129.9	128.7
2003			132.0	128.8	128.7	131.6	141.8	136.2	138.6	120.2	134.1	152.8	169.1	171.0
2004			176.6	180.8	205.4	223.4	225.6	189.6	207.6	129.5	138.8	120.1	121.6	122.6
2005			127.3	120.9	143.1	138.2	141.6	152.0	152.7	151.0	135.1	129.5	132.9	133.2
2006			139.4	133.8	135.0	126.3	134.2	133.4	137.2	133.2