TIRANA, Sept 6 /ATA/ – Albania’s import price index slightly rose 0.2% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2023. The import price change was 10.7 % a year ago.
The import price index decreased 0.7% compared to the first quarter of 2023, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, INSTAT.
INSTAT data show that import prices of products in the section “Water supply, treatment activities and waste management” increased by 4.7%, followed by the extracting industries with an increase 0.4 % year-on-year compared to the previous quarter.
The price index in the manufacturing, which accounts for 90.6 % of the total, increased by 0,2 %, with prices of pharmaceutical products manufacturing and pharmaceutical preparations rising by 5,3%, followed by clothing and apparel by 3,1 %, paper printing and regrouping of recorded media by 2.9 %, manufacture of beverages” by 1.9 %, manufacture of textiles” by 1.8 %, manufacture of food products by 1.5 %, manufacture of non-metallic mineral products and manufacture of electrical equipment by 1%.
Import prices of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning decreased by 0.2 %.
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