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PAPERS & ARTICLES USING MXP 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
- "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

U.S. import price indexes for selected categories of goods 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Category	SITC Rev.3	Relative import- ance Nov. 2005(1)	Months
Category	SITC Rev.3	Relative import- ance Nov. 2005(1)	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
Food and live animals	0	3.550
1977			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	82.9	-	-	80.1
1978			-	-	75.3	-	-	75.3	-	-	75.8	-	-	77.6
1979			-	-	76.6	-	-	83.6	-	-	85.1	-	-	88.2
1980			-	-	88.5	-	-	86.6	-	-	87.4	-	-	88.7
1981			-	-	86.7	-	-	81.1	-	-	81.9	-	-	80.0
1982			-	-	80.0	-	-	75.9	-	-	78.0	-	-	80.2
1983			-	-	81.1	-	-	81.2	-	-	82.2	-	-	83.2
1984			-	-	85.0	-	-	85.8	-	-	84.6	-	-	81.3
1985			-	-	81.7	-	-	81.4	-	-	79.1	-	-	87.1
1986			-	-	93.6	-	-	88.4	-	-	92.2	-	-	89.9
1987			-	-	86.6	-	-	89.2	-	-	89.8	-	-	92.6
1988			-	-	93.9	-	-	93.8	-	-	92.8	-	-	94.1
1989			-	-	94.0	-	-	91.7	-	-	87.4	-	-	89.1
1990			-	-	91.9	-	-	92.1	-	-	93.9	-	-	95.7
1991			-	-	95.7	-	-	95.6	-	-	94.6	-	-	95.6
1992			-	-	97.4	-	-	91.4	-	-	92.1	92.7	94.4	93.2
1993			93.1	91.6	91.2	92.8	93.3	94.4	93.4	94.6	95.6	96.8	95.4	95.3
1994			95.8	95.0	96.3	97.4	99.3	101.8	107.1	110.1	110.9	112.6	110.5	110.8
1995			112.2	109.1	112.6	108.3	110.0	108.6	109.7	109.2	106.7	105.1	105.2	104.7
1996			100.3	104.7	103.2	107.5	107.3	102.7	102.0	101.8	104.8	105.6	104.6	102.6
1997			102.6	105.4	110.4	107.9	110.7	112.5	108.9	109.4	109.8	108.9	107.8	108.0
1998			107.6	105.8	106.1	107.8	105.8	106.3	105.6	101.8	103.5	105.2	103.9	103.2
1999			104.4	101.0	101.1	102.5	102.9	101.2	100.4	99.8	99.3	98.7	100.2	102.7
2000			101.7	101.5	101.0	101.9	100.1	99.0	99.2	99.4	99.0	99.2	97.8	100.2
2001			100.6	99.0	100.9	98.4	97.3	96.0	95.1	94.9	95.1	94.7	95.1	94.8
2002			95.8	94.3	96.4	97.0	96.4	94.5	96.3	96.6	98.8	97.6	97.6	98.8
2003			100.4	100.0	101.2	101.6	99.8	99.4	100.2	99.5	100.0	100.3	100.0	101.0
2004			102.2	104.7	105.4	106.4	106.1	106.9	107.4	107.4	109.2	111.1	111.0	111.9
2005			110.9	112.6	117.5	116.4	116.0	113.9	113.3	113.9	113.5	114.8	115.4	117.4

Meat and meat preparations	01	0.408
1977			-	-	-	-	-	70.0	-	-	69.8	-	-	73.6
1978			-	-	83.8	-	-	88.3	-	-	88.9	-	-	102.0
1979			-	-	113.6	-	-	111.9	-	-	108.3	-	-	117.8
1980			-	-	109.7	-	-	97.5	-	-	112.8	-	-	115.6
1981			-	-	103.7	-	-	99.6	-	-	101.3	-	-	100.7
1982			-	-	98.9	-	-	99.1	-	-	99.5	-	-	100.3
1983			-	-	99.3	-	-	96.5	-	-	97.5	-	-	93.8
1984			-	-	93.3	-	-	93.6	-	-	94.7	-	-	92.6
1985			-	-	89.3	-	-	81.5	-	-	83.6	-	-	92.6
1986			-	-	85.6	-	-	83.2	-	-	90.5	-	-	94.7
1987			-	-	91.1	-	-	93.7	-	-	99.2	-	-	98.4
1988			-	-	96.7	-	-	92.8	-	-	96.5	-	-	94.2
1989			-	-	96.5	-	-	95.1	-	-	107.6	-	-	116.3
1990			-	-	113.1	-	-	118.4	-	-	121.7	-	-	120.5
1991			-	-	120.9	-	-	125.0	-	-	119.5	-	-	115.9
1992			-	-	114.8	-	-	112.3	-	-	111.5	113.5	111.1	109.5
1993			107.9	107.1	113.4	113.2	114.9	117.6	118.8	121.1	115.9	115.9	113.6	111.3
1994			109.9	111.1	114.3	115.4	110.8	107.8	106.5	107.4	108.8	107.7	107.6	108.5
1995			106.9	106.2	104.9	102.6	100.8	100.8	101.8	103.3	97.3	98.1	98.9	99.6
1996			97.8	95.5	93.7	93.3	93.0	92.0	92.6	102.0	102.6	104.4	104.1	100.7
1997			99.4	99.6	105.3	106.5	105.3	103.6	103.7	106.0	105.7	104.5	104.5	106.0
1998			103.0	103.0	103.0	103.5	103.1	100.0	99.4	99.5	98.9	97.2	96.4	93.4
1999			93.5	93.8	95.7	96.1	95.4	96.1	95.9	98.4	101.2	100.1	99.4	100.1
2000			99.5	100.0	100.9	102.0	101.9	100.8	99.9	100.7	100.7	97.2	97.4	99.1
2001			97.2	97.8	102.2	104.4	106.3	106.2	109.3	108.9	113.5	114.8	118.0	109.8
2002			105.5	107.4	109.8	110.1	105.4	104.0	105.9	105.4	103.4	102.0	101.2	106.8
2003			101.7	107.4	108.5	108.8	110.3	102.9	106.6	108.2	112.8	115.2	117.2	120.4
2004			117.7	118.0	120.4	121.7	124.4	128.9	133.7	134.2	134.9	134.2	131.8	133.0
2005			134.5	134.8	135.9	136.5	138.6	138.5	139.6	139.5	140.8	140.5	141.2	140.4

Fish, crustaceans, aquatic invertebrates and preparations thereof	03	0.880
1977			-	-	-	-	-	42.7	-	-	42.5	-	-	42.5
1978			-	-	43.2	-	-	43.4	-	-	44.9	-	-	48.0
1979			-	-	50.2	-	-	52.0	-	-	51.8	-	-	53.0
1980			-	-	53.5	-	-	53.1	-	-	54.1	-	-	56.3
1981			-	-	57.4	-	-	57.5	-	-	55.5	-	-	56.8
1982			-	-	58.0	-	-	57.9	-	-	57.0	-	-	57.8
1983			-	-	57.5	-	-	57.1	-	-	57.7	-	-	58.0
1984			-	-	56.6	-	-	57.3	-	-	57.3	-	-	57.1
1985			-	-	56.9	-	-	55.4	-	-	55.8	-	-	56.6
1986			-	-	60.1	-	-	62.0	-	-	64.1	-	-	66.9
1987			-	-	68.4	-	-	70.8	-	-	73.3	-	-	73.6
1988			-	-	74.4	-	-	72.6	-	-	70.7	-	-	71.2
1989			-	-	71.3	-	-	68.9	-	-	68.3	-	-	68.6
1990			-	-	70.7	-	-	70.9	-	-	74.5	-	-	77.1
1991			-	-	79.7	-	-	78.9	-	-	78.2	-	-	78.3
1992			-	-	79.1	-	-	79.1	-	-	80.3	79.9	79.4	78.3
1993			78.5	78.3	78.9	79.7	78.8	79.1	78.4	79.0	79.9	83.0	83.5	83.6
1994			84.1	84.9	85.5	87.8	89.4	88.9	89.4	90.6	90.6	92.4	92.7	93.8
1995			92.1	92.1	93.6	93.2	92.6	92.5	92.8	91.4	89.2	89.1	87.3	86.5
1996			85.9	86.5	86.8	87.4	87.6	88.8	87.0	87.9	88.3	88.3	88.4	89.4
1997			89.6	91.1	90.7	91.3	92.9	94.3	95.1	95.2	95.2	97.8	97.7	96.1
1998			95.9	96.8	97.4	97.8	97.6	99.6	96.6	94.6	94.4	94.9	93.1	91.2
1999			91.8	93.4	94.0	96.5	96.5	94.9	94.9	94.5	93.9	95.6	97.8	97.2
2000			97.2	98.2	98.3	101.1	99.8	99.3	100.7	103.4	102.5	100.7	99.5	99.3
2001			97.7	96.2	93.0	91.2	90.7	90.0	87.0	86.8	86.3	84.6	82.8	82.9
2002			82.3	82.0	80.4	80.1	80.0	79.8	81.9	83.0	84.9	81.4	82.0	82.5
2003			81.1	82.0	81.4	84.3	83.4	81.3	83.5	82.3	82.2	79.8	79.3	79.2
2004			78.2	80.0	83.3	85.1	84.1	84.1	86.1	86.9	86.0	85.6	84.7	85.0
2005			86.0	87.0	88.5	88.3	87.8	87.8	90.0	90.9	91.4	92.4	91.1	91.7

Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen	034	0.302
1977			-	-	40.6	-	-	41.1	-	-	42.2	-	-	42.1
1978			-	-	42.7	-	-	42.7	-	-	43.1	-	-	43.0
1979			-	-	43.8	-	-	44.7	-	-	46.0	-	-	47.5
1980			-	-	50.0	-	-	52.4	-	-	51.9	-	-	55.7
1981			-	-	57.0	-	-	56.5	-	-	54.3	-	-	54.5
1982			-	-	54.4	-	-	52.6	-	-	50.4	-	-	51.0
1983			-	-	51.5	-	-	49.8	-	-	49.3	-	-	50.0
1984			-	-	50.0	-	-	49.5	-	-	50.6	-	-	50.9
1985			-	-	51.2	-	-	49.8	-	-	50.4	-	-	52.4
1986			-	-	56.1	-	-	55.9	-	-	59.3	-	-	62.8
1987			-	-	66.3	-	-	68.2	-	-	72.4	-	-	73.6
1988			-	-	73.6	-	-	69.4	-	-	65.9	-	-	66.7
1989			-	-	67.5	-	-	66.5	-	-	66.2	-	-	68.2
1990			-	-	70.0	-	-	71.7	-	-	77.4	-	-	81.4
1991			-	-	82.7	-	-	81.9	-	-	81.5	-	-	82.3
1992			-	-	81.7	-	-	82.7	-	-	82.9	-	-	83.6
1993			-	-	83.4	-	-	81.3	-	-	80.0	-	-	79.8
1994			80.5	80.6	81.6	81.8	82.8	82.0	81.1	84.0	82.7	85.2	86.0	86.3
1995			84.1	84.8	88.0	86.7	87.5	87.0	87.6	86.9	85.8	85.5	84.5	84.4
1996			82.9	83.2	83.6	84.4	85.0	85.2	85.6	85.5	85.9	85.2	85.6	85.4
1997			84.7	87.2	86.9	87.8	88.3	87.7	89.5	89.9	89.8	88.6	89.6	88.5
1998			89.6	90.6	89.7	91.0	93.0	99.0	95.7	96.3	96.7	98.7	104.6	103.1
1999			102.5	100.6	102.1	104.7	100.1	99.0	101.5	100.8	101.5	101.5	100.7	100.2
2000			100.1	99.8	95.5	98.3	98.7	98.9	100.3	102.1	102.1	99.4	103.4	101.4
2001			97.4	97.0	97.0	96.1	95.6	96.3	95.4	94.7	93.5	94.6	94.3	92.0
2002			88.2	87.5	87.3	88.8	86.9	87.2	98.0	98.6	98.6	90.9	91.3	90.0
2003			88.3	89.0	88.3	92.6	92.9	93.1	100.5	94.9	93.6	91.3	90.8	90.7
2004			89.9	89.6	90.2	91.0	91.5	93.0	96.0	97.6	96.8	95.5	91.3	91.8
2005			93.6	95.4	95.8	100.5	100.9	102.6	106.4	107.4	110.4	111.7	111.8	111.2

Crustaceans, aquatic invert. fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted	036	0.391
1977			-	-	39.3	-	-	39.0	-	-	37.7	-	-	38.0
1978			-	-	38.7	-	-	39.2	-	-	41.7	-	-	47.9
1979			-	-	52.0	-	-	54.3	-	-	52.8	-	-	53.6
1980			-	-	51.8	-	-	48.0	-	-	50.0	-	-	50.8
1981			-	-	51.7	-	-	52.5	-	-	50.4	-	-	52.7
1982			-	-	55.9	-	-	58.1	-	-	58.6	-	-	60.2
1983			-	-	59.3	-	-	60.3	-	-	62.3	-	-	62.3
1984			-	-	59.3	-	-	61.0	-	-	59.8	-	-	59.0
1985			-	-	58.4	-	-	56.9	-	-	57.1	-	-	56.3
1986			-	-	60.6	-	-	64.8	-	-	65.1	-	-	67.0
1987			-	-	67.2	-	-	70.4	-	-	70.8	-	-	69.0
1988			-	-	70.9	-	-	70.4	-	-	69.6	-	-	69.6
1989			-	-	69.6	-	-	65.8	-	-	64.6	-	-	63.0
1990			-	-	66.4	-	-	65.2	-	-	67.0	-	-	69.0
1991			-	-	73.0	-	-	71.8	-	-	70.2	-	-	69.7
1992			-	-	71.6	-	-	70.5	-	-	72.6	-	-	68.2
1993			-	-	69.3	-	-	71.2	-	-	73.4	-	-	77.3
1994			77.5	79.1	79.8	84.1	87.3	86.9	88.9	89.0	90.3	91.4	91.8	93.0
1995			91.7	91.5	93.1	93.7	92.3	91.9	91.7	88.9	85.3	85.3	82.4	79.5
1996			80.2	80.8	81.1	82.4	82.8	84.5	80.8	82.2	82.2	82.8	83.2	85.2
1997			87.1	88.4	87.7	87.9	90.5	92.0	91.5	92.1	91.9	97.7	97.2	95.4
1998			94.9	95.6	97.3	96.8	95.0	94.6	91.7	87.5	87.1	87.4	82.1	80.2
1999			82.6	85.9	85.6	87.8	90.9	88.0	87.1	87.4	87.1	90.6	95.2	95.5
2000			96.0	97.2	100.2	103.1	101.5	100.9	100.5	103.6	102.0	101.0	96.7	97.1
2001			96.0	93.9	88.5	85.8	85.8	83.6	79.1	79.7	79.3	75.7	71.9	73.3
2002			74.2	72.8	70.6	69.2	71.3	70.0	68.6	68.8	72.3	72.0	72.1	72.8
2003			71.5	73.6	72.8	75.3	74.3	69.9	69.7	70.8	70.7	67.1	66.0	65.6
2004			64.8	68.4	73.7	75.5	72.9	71.8	72.9	73.2	71.4	71.6	72.5	72.9
2005			74.4	75.7	78.0	74.8	73.5	72.7	74.7	75.8	75.2	76.2	73.7	74.2

Vegetables, fruit and nuts, fresh or dried	05	0.865
1976			-	-	-	-	-	43.3	-	-	47.2	-	-	48.2
1977			-	-	62.6	-	-	54.6	-	-	55.7	-	-	50.2
1978			-	-	46.8	-	-	49.1	-	-	49.4	-	-	49.5
1979			-	-	48.2	-	-	50.3	-	-	50.7	-	-	53.5
1980			-	-	51.9	-	-	54.7	-	-	55.0	-	-	57.1
1981			-	-	70.1	-	-	69.1	-	-	69.0	-	-	68.4
1982			-	-	68.8	-	-	61.1	-	-	63.2	-	-	71.0
1983			-