The International Price Program (IPP) produces Import/Export Price Indexes (MXP) containing data on changes in the prices of nonmilitary goods and services traded between the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Next Release: November 13, 2009

October 2009 U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes are scheduled to be released on November 13, 2009 at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.

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Changes in the presentation of the text section of the U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes news release were incorporated in the edition published on September 11, 2009. There were no changes to the format and content of Tables 1-8. Within the text section of the release, the table previously shown on the front page each month was moved to an interior page of the text section and called Table A. On that table, indexes for petroleum and nonpetroleum imports are no longer included and instead indexes for fuel imports and nonfuel imports are shown. The indexes for petroleum and nonpetroleum imports will continue to be published in Table 1. More...

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U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes

October 14, 2009
The U.S. Import Price Index edged up 0.1 percent in September after a 1.6 percent increase in August. The September increase was led by higher nonfuel prices, which more than offset lower fuel prices. The price index for U.S. exports declined 0.3 percent in September following a 0.7 percent increase the previous month. More...
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  1. What are the U.S. Import and U.S. Export price indexes?
  2. How are the Import/Export Price Indexes used?
  3. What goods and services do the Import/Export Price Indexes measure?
  4. What classification systems are used to aggregate Import/Export price indexes?
  5. How are Import/Export Price Index data obtained?
  6. What prices are used to calculate the Import/Export Price Indexes?
  7. Are adjustments made for changes in the price or quality of a measured item?
  8. How are the Import/Export Price Indexes weighted?
  9. How are the Import/Export Price Indexes constructed?
  10. How are the Import/Export Price Indexes interpreted?

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