TIRANA, Sept 4 /ATA/ Import prices marked a slight increase of 0.4% during the second quarter of this year, compared to the corresponding period a year earlier.
According to the Institute of Statistics, compared to the first quarter of 2020, import prices decreased by 0.4%.
The largest increase in import prices of 0.9% is observed in the products of the processing industry.
Within this section, the largest increase in prices is observed in articles for the production of beverages by 7.6%, followed by products for food processing by 2.9% and products for manufacturing of machinery and equipment by 2.9%.
On the other hand, the prices of products “printing and regrouping of registered media” have decreased by 8.1%, followed by “coke processing and refining of petroleum by-products” by 4.4%, “metallurgy” by 3, 1%, etc.
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