Import/Export Price Indexes

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METHODOLOGY
PAPERS & ARTICLES USING MXP DATA
- "Price Measures of New Vehicles: A Comparison" by Maria Bustinza, Thaddious Foster, Tod Reese, David Yochum, and Daniel Chow.
- Import and Export Price Trends in 2006" by Carol Rowan and Sonya Wahi-Miller
- "Price and Expenditure Measures of Petroleum Products: A Comparison" by Abby Duly, Jeffrey Harris, Ara Khatchadourian, Rozi Ulics, and Melissa Wolter
- Import Price Rise in 2005 Due to Continued High Energy Prices" by Jeffrey Bogen
- "IPP Introduces Additional Locality of Origin Import Price Indexes" by Helen McCulley and Melissa Schwartz
- "U.S. Import and Export Prices in 2004" by Kristen Locatelli
- "U.S. Import and Export Prices in 2003" by Melissa Schwartz
- "International Price Comparisons Based on Purchasing Power Parity" by Michelle Vachris and James Thomas
- "Using Dissaggregated Data to Dissect the U.S. Trade Deficit" by William Alterman
- "Coping with the Rising Yen: Japan's Recent Export Experience" by Thomas Klitgaard
- "Are Producer Prices Good Proxies for Export Prices?" by Bill Alterman
- "Imputation and Price Indexes: Theory and Evidence from the International Price Program" by Robert C. Feenstra and Erwin W. Diewert
- "Explaining Tranquility in the Midst of Turbulence: U.S. Multinationals' Intrafirm Trade, 1966-1997" by Subramanian Rangan
- "Transfer Pricing, Intrafirm Trade and the BLS International Price Program" by Lorraine Eden
- "The Behavior of Intrafirm Trade Prices in U.S. International Price Data" by Kimberly A. Clausing
- "Exchange Rates and the Prices of Manufacturing Products Imported into the United States" by Giovanni P. Olivei
IMPORT PRICES BY SELECTED LOCALITIES
SELECTED IMPORT INDEXES
SELECTED EXPORT INDEXES

Table 7. U.S. import price indexes for selected categories of goods by locality of origin 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Category	Percent of U.S. imports(1)	Months
Category	Percent of U.S. imports(1)	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
Industrialized Countries(2)	42.888
1990		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	89.8
1991		-	-	89.6	-	-	87.9	-	-	87.9	-	-	88.9
1992		-	-	89.2	-	-	89.6	-	-	90.9	91.7	91.1	90.1
1993		90.1	90.1	90.5	90.9	91.4	91.4	91.5	91.3	91.5	92.2	92.2	91.7
1994		91.8	91.9	92.3	92.6	93.0	93.4	94.0	94.7	94.8	95.5	96.1	96.1
1995		96.2	96.8	97.4	98.8	99.9	99.8	100.2	100.2	100.0	99.6	100.0	100.0
1996		100.0	99.7	99.7	99.9	99.3	98.8	98.7	98.8	99.3	99.2	99.1	99.4
1997		99.5	98.5	97.4	96.6	96.4	96.5	96.4	96.7	96.4	96.4	96.5	96.1
1998		95.1	94.6	94.6	94.5	94.7	94.0	93.7	93.4	93.3	93.7	94.2	93.8
1999		94.2	94.3	94.1	94.4	94.9	94.8	95.2	95.7	96.4	96.8	97.5	97.5
2000		98.0	99.2	99.5	99.3	99.3	100.1	100.6	100.5	100.9	100.8	100.4	101.4
2001		103.6	102.4	100.2	99.7	99.3	99.0	97.4	96.8	96.5	95.3	94.6	93.7
2002		93.8	93.7	94.3	95.5	95.5	95.7	96.3	96.7	96.9	96.9	96.5	96.7
2003		97.7	99.1	100.0	98.1	97.5	98.4	98.8	98.6	98.6	98.9	99.4	100.0
2004		101.5	102.9	103.4	103.9	104.5	104.7	104.9	106.2	106.3	106.9	107.7	107.5
2005		107.9	108.5	109.7	110.2	109.4	110.0	111.1	111.6	113.5	115.6	114.7	114.1
2006		114.6	114.0	113.5	114.7	116.9	117.4	117.1	117.7	117.0	114.4	115.9	116.4
2007		116.3	116.4	117.9	117.9	118.7	119.7	120.4	120.2	120.4	121.2	124.1	124.2
2008		126.7	127.8	130.9	134.6	137.0	139.6	141.7	139.5	135.1	130.9	123.7	-

Nonmanufactured articles	4.201
1990		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	68.6
1991		-	-	64.2	-	-	62.2	-	-	62.3	-	-	62.7
1992		-	-	62.0	-	-	63.8	-	-	64.6	65.3	64.4	63.7
1993		62.7	62.8	64.5	64.7	65.0	63.8	61.7	61.2	61.8	62.0	60.5	58.7
1994		57.9	59.1	58.2	60.2	62.9	64.3	66.8	66.4	64.3	64.2	65.3	64.1
1995		64.0	64.4	66.3	67.8	68.5	67.6	65.5	64.6	65.2	64.3	64.4	66.0
1996		67.7	67.6	71.6	74.9	74.5	72.3	72.9	73.8	76.0	78.1	80.0	84.3
1997		89.7	82.3	73.3	68.4	69.7	68.9	67.9	68.9	69.4	72.0	72.2	68.5
1998		63.9	60.4	59.3	58.6	59.1	56.8	56.9	56.1	57.2	59.1	57.7	55.7
1999		56.2	56.1	56.9	61.4	65.3	65.1	69.4	73.7	78.7	79.7	82.7	83.2
2000		84.6	90.0	92.7	90.3	90.6	102.2	103.0	100.6	107.5	111.3	109.2	118.2
2001		137.7	120.0	103.9	103.6	102.3	97.2	89.0	89.5	85.2	75.3	75.7	69.9
2002		73.0	75.4	82.9	93.9	94.7	93.8	95.7	98.6	102.4	102.5	98.8	102.7
2003		114.0	123.0	134.3	111.2	108.0	113.7	114.0	111.0	108.9	107.0	108.0	112.4
2004		123.3	125.1	122.9	122.3	129.3	133.1	133.8	141.9	138.7	147.4	157.8	147.1
2005		140.9	144.4	156.7	160.5	155.0	158.0	173.9	182.9	203.0	217.4	206.8	199.2
2006		198.2	177.9	170.9	182.5	194.6	190.0	194.0	202.1	183.7	157.9	172.2	184.9
2007		168.8	176.0	185.6	188.8	193.6	197.9	199.4	193.1	195.4	200.5	226.6	228.2
2008		237.8	252.1	275.6	298.9	324.4	346.8	359.4	324.1	279.2	240.6	201.0	-

Manufactured articles	38.251
1990		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	90.2
1991		-	-	91.6	-	-	90.1	-	-	90.1	-	-	91.3
1992		-	-	91.8	-	-	91.7	-	-	93.0	93.8	93.5	92.4
1993		92.5	92.4	92.8	93.1	93.8	93.8	94.1	93.8	94.1	94.7	94.9	94.6
1994		94.7	94.7	95.1	95.5	95.6	95.9	96.3	97.2	97.4	98.2	98.7	98.8
1995		98.9	99.5	100.0	101.5	102.6	102.6	103.0	103.2	102.9	102.6	103.0	102.9
1996		102.7	102.4	102.1	102.1	101.5	101.1	101.0	101.0	101.4	101.1	100.8	100.7
1997		100.4	100.0	99.5	99.1	98.8	98.9	98.9	99.2	98.8	98.6	98.7	98.6
1998		97.9	97.7	97.8	97.8	97.9	97.5	97.1	96.9	96.7	96.9	97.6	97.3
1999		97.7	97.9	97.6	97.5	97.7	97.7	97.6	97.8	98.1	98.4	98.8	98.9
2000		99.3	100.0	100.2	100.2	100.1	99.9	100.4	100.5	100.2	99.8	99.6	99.8
2001		100.4	100.8	99.9	99.4	99.1	99.2	98.2	97.5	97.6	97.1	96.4	96.0
2002		95.8	95.6	95.6	96.1	96.0	96.3	96.8	96.9	96.9	96.9	96.7	96.7
2003		96.9	97.7	97.8	97.5	97.1	97.7	98.1	98.1	98.2	98.7	99.2	99.4
2004		100.1	101.4	102.1	102.8	102.9	102.8	103.0	103.6	104.0	103.9	103.9	104.6
2005		105.6	105.9	106.3	106.5	106.1	106.6	106.4	106.3	106.7	107.9	107.7	107.7
2006		108.3	109.1	109.0	109.4	110.9	111.8	111.2	111.2	111.8	110.8	111.5	111.1
2007		112.1	111.6	112.5	112.2	112.8	113.5	114.2	114.5	114.5	115.0	116.3	116.3
2008		118.1	118.4	120.1	122.3	123.0	124.3	125.7	125.6	124.2	122.5	117.6	-

Other Countries(3)	57.112
1990		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	107.2
1991		-	-	94.1	-	-	93.5	-	-	93.8	-	-	93.6
1992		-	-	92.2	-	-	94.7	-	-	95.0	95.5	95.5	94.4
1993		94.0	93.9	94.2	94.5	94.3	93.5	92.5	92.4	92.3	92.5	91.4	89.6
1994		89.5	90.2	90.1	91.2	92.9	94.2	95.8	95.9	95.0	95.4	96.0	95.7
1995		96.1	96.9	97.5	98.7	99.5	98.7	97.6	97.2	97.4	96.6	96.9	97.6
1996		98.2	98.2	99.8	101.4	100.3	99.0	99.0	99.1	101.3	103.0	102.7	102.7
1997		102.7	101.6	100.6	99.4	99.6	99.4	98.7	99.1	98.7	99.5	98.2	96.6
1998		94.8	93.9	92.4	92.0	91.6	90.7	89.7	89.1	89.5	89.4	88.3	86.8
1999		87.0	86.8	87.7	89.2	90.1	90.3	91.4	93.2	94.5	94.9	96.0	96.9
2000		97.8	99.2	99.8	97.5	98.4	100.4	100.0	100.2	102.5	102.3	102.5	99.5
2001		98.4	98.2	97.0	96.1	96.8	96.6	95.0	95.0	95.0	92.1	90.0	88.6
2002		88.6	88.8	90.9	92.2	93.2	92.2	92.6	93.4	94.3	93.9	92.3	93.4
2003		96.1	97.9	96.7	93.3	92.4	93.1	93.9	94.0	93.3	93.1	93.5	94.1
2004		95.4	95.6	96.3	96.8	98.4	97.9	98.4	100.5	101.5	103.7	102.2	99.7
2005		100.5	101.6	105.0	105.8	105.1	107.0	108.4	110.9	112.1	112.0	109.1	109.5
2006		111.2	110.9	110.8	113.7	115.5	115.5	117.3	117.1	114.0	110.9	110.8	111.8
2007		109.8	111.1	113.1	114.9	116.3	118.0	120.1	120.5	121.1	123.5	128.0	127.5
2008		129.7	129.3	133.3	137.3	142.1	147.3	149.8	144.7	139.0	129.9	120.4	-

Nonmanufactured articles	12.058
1990		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	88.2
1991		-	-	64.8	-	-	63.8	-	-	64.6	-	-	63.8
1992		-	-	61.0	-	-	65.5	-	-	66.0	66.8	66.9	63.7
1993		62.2	63.4	64.9	65.6	65.3	62.8	59.4	59.5	59.1	59.7	56.6	51.9
1994		51.0	52.3	52.0	55.3	60.1	63.8	67.9	67.7	64.8	66.4	67.2	65.5
1995		66.3	67.8	69.5	72.0	73.4	70.3	66.2	65.4	66.1	64.4	65.3	67.3
1996		68.3	69.1	73.7	79.0	75.8	72.1	73.5	74.6	80.9	85.2	83.6	84.5
1997		84.7	80.4	75.8	71.2	73.1	72.6	71.1	73.1	72.2	76.2	73.5	68.8
1998		63.8	61.3	57.1	57.4	56.6	54.9	52.7	51.3	54.5	55.9	51.6	46.8
1999		48.9	48.7	53.0	59.8	62.8	63.6	68.9	75.5	80.3	80.6	85.2	89.2
2000		92.0	97.9	99.9	90.5	94.5	102.4	100.8	101.5	109.2	106.6	107.2	97.4
2001		91.8	93.0	88.9	86.5	90.0	89.7	84.9	86.2	86.1	75.0	67.1	65.3
2002		67.9	70.2	81.3	89.3	92.0	88.2	90.4	94.0	99.6	98.4	90.8	96.4
2003		108.6	117.1	113.3	97.6	93.4	98.0	103.8	104.7	98.8	100.3	103.2	106.5
2004		112.4	113.9	118.1	119.0	125.8	123.2	127.2	136.5	141.5	156.0	145.4	130.3
2005		134.8	140.2	158.0	161.8	156.3	169.5	178.1	192.0	199.8	192.1	178.6	181.3
2006		194.7	189.6	191.7	208.7	216.6	215.4	224.7	225.9	204.6	185.9	184.3	191.1
2007		178.5	184.1	192.4	205.3	210.7	220.6	236.5	236.0	241.6	255.9	282.9	279.0
2008		290.4	289.2	314.6	339.0	369.0	402.3	417.5	379.6	337.1	277.6	216.1	-

Manufactured articles	44.837
1990		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	105.3
1991		-	-	105.2	-	-	105.1	-	-	104.9	-	-	105.2
1992		-	-	105.5	-	-	105.7	-	-	105.7	105.8	105.7	105.4
1993		105.5	104.8	104.6	104.9	104.6	104.5	104.4	104.3	104.2	104.3	104.2	103.7
1994		103.8	104.3	104.2	104.4	104.9	105.1	105.7	105.9	105.8	105.7	106.2	106.5
1995		106.9	107.2	107.3	108.0	108.4	108.8	108.9	108.5	108.6	108.2	108.2	108.4
1996		108.8	108.5	108.9	108.9	108.8	108.4	107.8	107.6	107.9	108.4	108.8	108.6
1997		108.4	108.2	108.4	108.2	107.9	107.8	107.5	107.3	107.0	106.8	106.0	105.3
1998		104.6	104.1	103.5	102.9	102.7	102.2	101.4	101.1	100.6	100.0	99.9	99.6
1999		99.1	99.0	98.8	98.5	98.9	98.9	98.6	98.9	99.0	99.6	99.5	99.3
2000		99.7	99.6	99.8	99.8	99.6	99.7	99.7	99.8	100.3	100.9	101.0	100.2
2001		100.5	99.8	99.6	99.2	99.0	98.8	98.2	97.9	97.9	97.6	97.4	96.0
2002		95.5	95.3	95.6	95.7	96.4	95.9	96.0	96.3	96.2	96.0	95.5	95.8
2003		96.6	97.2	96.5	95.4	95.1	95.1	94.9	94.9	95.1	94.6	94.5	94.5
2004		95.1	95.0	95.2	95.6	96.3	96.2	96.1	96.9	97.2	97.3	97.3	97.1
2005		97.2	97.5	98.4	98.7	98.9	98.7	98.8	99.4	99.3	100.7	99.6	99.6
2006		99.6	99.9	99.4	100.2	101.1	101.2	101.9	101.5	101.2	100.5	100.6	100.7
2007		100.2	100.9	102.0	102.3	103.1	103.6	103.7	104.2	104.1	104.8	106.0	106.0
2008		107.0	106.6	107.8	109.0	110.4	111.8	112.6	111.9	111.2	108.9	106.4	-

Canada	16.032
1990		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	90.2
1991		-	-	87.2	-	-	87.3	-	-	86.9	-	-	87.2
1992		-	-	86.5	-	-	87.4	-	-	87.5	88.0	86.8	86.3
1993		86.0	85.8	86.5	86.6	86.3	85.9	85.5	85.2	85.2	85.4	85.1	85.1
1994		84.9	85.2	85.5	85.6	86.4	87.2	87.6	88.0	88.1	88.9	90.2	90.2
1995		91.1	91.6	92.1	92.9	93.8	93.8	93.7	94.1	94.8	94.3	94.4	94.7
1996		94.3	94.3	94.3	94.7	93.6	93.5	93.2	93.1	93.8	93.9	94.1	95.1
1997		95.9	94.3	93.2	92.5	92.7	92.6	92.5	92.8	93.2	93.2	93.0	92.0
1998		91.3	90.3	90.1	90.2	90.6	89.7	89.7	89.6	89.3	89.8	89.5	88.7
1999		88.6	88.6	88.8	89.1	90.3	90.6	91.9	92.9	93.5	93.9	94.5	94.7
2000		95.5	97.2	97.2	97.8	97.9	99.8	100.4	100.0	102.4	103.4	102.9	105.6
2001		110.3	106.2	102.6	103.2	102.5	101.8	99.0	98.9	97.0	95.0	94.9	93.2
2002		93.6	94.2	96.1	98.1	97.9	97.8	98.6	99.2	99.6	99.9	99.1	99.2
2003		101.4	103.3	106.6	102.5	101.8	103.1	103.9	103.5	103.9	103.7	104.0	104.4
2004		106.4	109.3	110.0	110.6	111.7	112.3	112.2	114.5	114.4	115.5	117.2	116.6
2005		116.7	117.6	120.1	120.7	119.4	119.6	121.7	123.6	128.2	133.1	130.8	129.6
2006		130.5	127.2	125.4	127.8	131.2	130.6	131.1	132.7	129.7	124.0	127.2	129.2
2007		127.7	128.2	130.2	132.2	133.5	135.0	135.5	135.2	135.0	136.7	143.6	142.3
2008		144.4	146.5	152.0	160.0	165.3	171.2	173.8	168.7	160.1	153.8	141.0	-

Nonmanufactured articles	3.711
1990		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	66.8
1991		-	-	59.2	-	-	59.5	-	-	58.9	-	-	58.6
1992		-	-	58.1	-	-	60.7	-	-	61.2	62.3	60.1	60.0
1993		58.9	59.2	60.6	61.2	61.7	60.3	58.2	57.5	58.1	58.7	56.6	55.3
1994		54.8	55.7	54.7	57.1	60.1	61.1	62.9	61.5	60.1	60.9	61.4	60.3
1995		60.6	61.1	61.7	64.4	65.4	64.4	61.8	63.6	63.9	62.2	62.5	64.8
1996		65.6	66.0	70.3	74.6	72.4	70.7	71.9	72.9	74.4	76.8	78.2	84.3
1997		90.3	80.2	69.9	66.6	67.8	66.6	66.2	67.1	68.1	71.1	71.4	66.4
1998		62.7	59.3	58.4	57.8	58.8	56.6	57.0	55.7	56.5	59.0	57.3	56.3
1999		56.6	56.0	56.5	59.9	64.3	64.2	68.2	72.4	76.8	77.4	81.2	79.9
2000		81.5	87.0	89.3	89.2	90.9	103.6	103.2	100.4	107.6	113.0	110.0	124.4
2001		153.3	128.3	108.1	109.8	106.0	97.9	89.1	90.1	83.1	72.4	76.1	69.8
2002		73.2	76.0	83.8	97.0	97.1	96.8	98.5	100.8	104.1	105.2	100.2	104.9
2003		116.6	126.0	143.1	114.7	111.7	119.0	119.2	114.9	111.5	108.6	108.9	114.0
2004		127.7	131.3	126.1	126.5	132.6	138.0	138.2	143.9	138.9	145.8	160.6	150.5
2005		144.0	147.1	157.9	162.6	158.7	159.8	177.3	187.7	210.8	229.9	217.8	207.4
2006		206.2	179.7	171.3	181.5	194.7	189.2	193.5	202.7	183.1	154.3	174.2	187.1
2007		171.6	178.1	187.8	189.3	194.0	195.9	195.1	188.0	187.7	198.1	224.6	222.3
2008		232.0	248.4	273.7	297.1	322.0	345.1	356.7	319.3	273.3	237.9	199.2	-

Manufactured articles	12.028