Table 2 U.S. Export Price Indexes, by End Use

Table 2. U.S. export price indexes and percent changes for selected categories of goods: September 2017 to September 2018 [2000=100, unless otherwise noted]
Description End
Use		 Relative
import-
ance
Aug.
2018(1)		 Index Percent change
Aug.
2018		 Sept.
2018		 Annual Monthly
Sept.
2017
to
Sept.
2018		 May
2018
to
June
2018		 June
2018
to
July
2018		 July
2018
to
Aug.
2018		 Aug.
2018
to
Sept.
2018

All commodities

   100.000 127.2 127.2 2.7 0.2 -0.5 -0.2 0.0

Agricultural commodities

   9.587 175.2 172.8 -2.3 -1.0 -5.2 0.3 -1.4

All exports excluding food and fuels (Dec. 2010=100)

   80.690 101.5 101.4 1.8 0.1 -0.2 -0.2 -0.1

Nonagricultural commodities

   90.413 123.5 123.7 3.3 0.3 0.1 -0.2 0.2

Foods, feeds, & beverages

0

 8.986 177.1 174.6 -2.6 -1.0 -4.6 0.4 -1.4

Agricultural foods, feeds & beverages, excluding distilled beverages

00

 8.349 175.1 172.3 -3.4 -0.9 -5.2 0.4 -1.6

Nonagricultural foods (fish, distilled beverages)

01

 0.637 215.9 218.4 8.2 -3.0 2.6 0.9 1.2

Industrial supplies & materials

1

 31.956 162.7 163.1 6.6 0.9 -0.2 -0.7 0.2

Industrial supplies & materials, durable

   10.215 163.2 162.2 -0.2 0.4 -1.2 -2.2 -0.6

Industrial supplies & materials, nondurable

   21.742 162.8 163.8 10.2 1.1 0.3 0.0 0.6

Agricultural industrial supplies & materials

10

 1.238 181.8 182.1 4.7 -2.2 -4.9 -0.4 0.2

Nonagricultural industrial supplies & materials

   30.719 162.2 162.5 6.7 0.9 0.0 -0.7 0.2

Fuels & lubricants

11

 10.324 206.2 208.9 14.8 2.4 0.7 0.1 1.3

Nonagricultural supplies & materials excluding fuels & building materials

12

 19.380 159.3 158.8 3.0 0.3 -0.4 -1.1 -0.3

Selected building materials

13

 1.015 123.7 123.1 1.3 0.4 0.2 -1.2 -0.5

Capital goods

2

 36.540 110.0 110.1 1.9 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Electrical generating equipment

20

 3.917 118.0 117.8 4.1 0.4 -0.5 1.0 -0.2

Nonelectrical machinery

21

 23.488 94.9 95.0 1.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1

Transportation equipment excluding motor vehicles (Dec. 2001=100)

22

 9.135 176.6 176.8 3.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1

Automotive vehicles, parts & engines

3

 10.055 114.1 114.2 0.7 -0.1 -0.1 0.0 0.1

Consumer goods, excluding automotives

4

 12.462 109.8 109.8 0.5 -0.1 0.1 -0.1 0.0

Nondurables, manufactured

40

 6.068 106.6 106.6 1.2 -0.5 0.1 0.1 0.0

Durables, manufactured

41

 4.961 107.5 107.5 -0.3 0.3 0.0 -0.2 0.0

Footnotes
(1) Relative importance figures are based on 2016 trade values.

NOTES: Data may be revised in each of the 3 months after original publication.
Dash = Not available

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