TIRANA, Sept. 7/ATA/ In the second quarter of 2021, import price index-IPC increased by 1.7% compared to the second quarter of 2020. While if compared to the first quarter of 2021, IPC increased by 0.4%.
According to the report published by the Albanian Institute of Statistics-INSTAT, the import price index in the group “electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning” increased by 9.7%.
The prices of goods in the group “processing industry” which has the largest share of 94%, marked an increase of 1.4%.
Within this section, the largest increase in prices is observed in the products “coke processing and refining of petroleum by-products” by 5%, followed by “printing and regrouping of registered media” by 4.4%, “metallurgy” by 3.5%, “production of tobacco products” by 2.3%, etc.
While, import price index in the group “production of other means of transport” have decreased by 1.1%, followed by group “production of optical, electronic, computer products” by 0.8%, “textile processing” by 0 , 7%, etc. //a.i/
