The International Price Program (IPP) randomly selects companies to be included based upon their relative value of their trade in
imports and exports during the course of a year. If you have received a letter or phone call from a BLS field economist about the IPP that
means BLS has selected your company to provide price information for its import/export price indexes. A BLS field economist will
schedule an appointment with your company to select specific import or export items to include in the IPP's market basket of goods.
During the interview, the field economist will discuss how to provide follow-up prices for the selected items. Your contribution helps to
ensure that the Import and Export Price Indexes are as reliable and accurate as possible. The only way we can achieve this
needed reliability and accuracy is through the cooperation of companies such as yours in providing complete and timely information.
Thank you for your help in maintaining the quality of IPP statistics.