Table 7 U.S. Import Price Indexes, by Locality of Origin

Table 7. U.S. import price indexes and percent changes by locality of origin: August 2007 to August 2008 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Description Percent
of
U.S.
imports(1)		 Index Percent change
July
2008		 Aug.
2008		 Annual Monthly
Aug.
2007
to
Aug.
2008		 Apr.
2008
to
May
2008		 May
2008
to
June
2008		 June
2008
to
July
2008		 July
2008
to
Aug.
2008

Industrialized Countries(2)

 42.888 140.4 137.5 14.4 1.8 1.8 0.6 -2.1

Nonmanufactured articles

 4.201 339.8 295.8 53.2 8.5 6.8 -1.9 -12.9

Manufactured articles

 38.251 125.5 125.4 9.5 0.6 1.0 1.0 -0.1

Other Countries(3)

 57.112 147.8 141.2 17.2 3.5 3.7 0.3 -4.5

Nonmanufactured articles

 12.058 399.9 352.7 49.4 8.8 9.3 -0.9 -11.8

Manufactured articles

 44.837 112.7 111.6 7.1 1.3 1.3 0.8 -1.0

Canada

 16.032 170.6 164.2 21.4 3.3 3.4 -0.2 -3.8

Nonmanufactured articles

 3.711 339.5 293.8 56.3 8.4 7.0 -1.5 -13.5

Manufactured articles

 12.028 137.8 139.2 11.0 1.0 1.9 0.2 1.0

European Union(4)

 17.355 134.1 133.0 9.2 0.8 0.8 0.2 -0.8

Nonmanufactured articles

 0.249 403.3 358.8 48.0 12.7 2.7 0.8 -11.0

Manufactured articles

 16.987 130.3 129.6 8.4 0.5 0.7 0.2 -0.5

France (Dec. 2003=100)

 1.844 120.4 121.2 10.6 0.3 0.4 0.9 0.7

Germany (Dec. 2003=100)

 4.732 113.1 112.8 4.0 0.2 -0.1 0.1 -0.3

United Kingdom (Dec. 2003=100)

 2.684 143.1 138.3 14.5 2.3 1.2 0.4 -3.4

Latin America(5)

 18.032 197.0 186.7 24.2 4.1 4.2 1.5 -5.2

Nonmanufactured articles

 5.151 414.1 367.6 51.2 9.1 8.9 1.2 -11.2

Manufactured articles

 12.786 148.7 147.0 11.4 1.2 1.3 1.8 -1.1

Mexico (Dec. 2003=100)

 10.710 155.2 150.3 16.7 2.7 3.1 0.6 -3.2

Pacific Rim (Dec. 2003=100)(6)

 33.822 103.4 103.4 4.3 0.6 0.4 0.7 0.0

China (Dec. 2003=100)

 15.926 103.6 103.7 4.9 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.1

Japan

 8.032 95.6 95.5 1.8 0.0 0.2 0.5 -0.1

Asian NICs(7)

 5.887 92.4 93.4 5.3 0.6 0.1 1.4 1.1

ASEAN (Dec. 2003=100)(8)

 6.041 102.7 101.8 4.0 1.5 0.7 -0.4 -0.9

Asia Near East (Dec. 2003=100)(9)

 3.928 317.9 283.3 39.8 7.0 6.9 1.1 -10.9

Footnotes
 (1) Percentage of trade figures are based on 2006 trade values.
(2) Includes Western Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
(3) Includes Eastern Europe, Latin America, OPEC countries, and other countries in Asia, Africa and the Western Hemisphere.
(4) Includes European Union countries.
(5) Includes Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
(6) Includes China, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Macao, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Asian Newly Industrialized Countries.
(7) Asian Newly Industrialized Countries. Includes Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
(8) Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
(9) Includes Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

NOTES: Data may be revised in each of the three months after original publication.
Regions are not mutually exclusive.
Dash = Not available

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