INSTAT said in its report on Thursday that the Producer Price Index rose 0.9% compared to the first quarter of 2023.

Compared to the second quarter of 2022, the highest price increase of 13.8% is observed in the “Electricity, gas, steam and air-condition” section, followed by “Manufacturing Industry” section by 5.9% and the “Mining and quarrying” section with 3.6 %.

Within the section “Manufacturing Industry”, the highest increase in prices is observed in the activity “Paper printing and regrouping of recorded media” by 21.4 %, followed by the activities “Manufacturing of food products” by 13.8%, “Manufacture of fabricated metal products except machinery and equipment” with 10.2 %, ” Manufacture of woods and products of wood and oak, except furniture” by 8.8 %, “Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products” by 8.6 %, “Manufacture of furniture” by 7.9 %.

On the other hand, the biggest decrease in prices is observed in the activities “Manufacture of coke and petroleum products refinery” with 4.9 %, followed by the activities “Manufacture of textiles” with 3.4 %, “Manufacture of transport vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers” with 2.6 %.

The Index of Production Prices of products for the domestic market: Compared to the second quarter of 2022, the index increased by 8.3 %. The biggest increase in prices is observed in the section “Mining and quarrying” with 18.1 %, followed by the section “Manufacturing industry” with 8.9 %, the section “Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning” with 7.0 % and the section “Water supply, waste treatment and management activities” with 0.5 %.

Production Price Index of products for export rose 4.6% compared to the second quarter of 2022.

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INSTAT said in its report on Wednesday, the Producer Price Index rose 1.5% compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.

Compared to the first quarter of 2022, the largest price increase of 18.3 % is observed in the “Electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioned” section, followed by the “Mining and quarrying” section with 13.0 % and “Manufacturing Industry” section by 7.0 %.

Within this section, the largest increase in prices is observed in the activity “Paper printing and regrouping of recorded media” by 25.4 %, followed by the activities “Manufacturing of woods and products of wood and oak, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and reed” by 15.1%, “Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products” with 13.2 %, “Other transport equipment” by 11.4 %, etc.

On the other hand, the biggest decrease in prices is observed in the activity “Manufacture of transport vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers” with 4.0%, followed by the activity “Manufacture of coke and petroleum products refinery” with 2.8 %.

Compared to the first quarter of 2022, the index increased by 9.3 %. The biggest increase in prices is observed in the section “Mining and quarrying” with 21.3 %, followed by the section “Manufacturing industry” with 10.8 %, the section “Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning” with 6.3 % and the section “Water supply, waste treatment and management activities” with 0.4 %.

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