Table 2 U.S. Export Price Indexes, by End Use

Table 2. U.S. export price indexes and percent changes for selected categories of goods: August 2007 to August 2008 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Description End
Use
Relative
import-
ance
July
2008(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

All commodities

  100.000 128.0 125.8 8.2 0.3 1.0 1.5 -1.7

Agricultural commodities

  10.594 207.8 187.8 24.8 0.2 2.3 6.5 -9.6

Nonagricultural commodities

  89.406 122.3 121.4 6.7 0.4 0.9 0.9 -0.7

Foods, feeds, & beverages

0

9.687 211.1 188.9 24.8 0.3 2.5 6.6 -10.5

Agricultural foods, feeds & beverages, excluding distilled beverages

00

9.020 218.4 194.0 26.2 0.4 2.6 7.0 -11.2

Nonagricultural foods (fish, distilled beverages)

01

0.667 147.1 145.2 9.8 -0.6 0.4 0.7 -1.3

Industrial supplies & materials

1

31.971 177.9 173.7 16.7 1.0 2.1 2.7 -2.4

Industrial supplies & materials, durable

  11.740 174.9 174.6 11.6 -0.6 -0.3 1.2 -0.2

Industrial supplies & materials, nondurable

  20.231 180.5 174.0 20.1 2.1 3.6 3.6 -3.6

Agricultural industrial supplies & materials

10

1.574 162.8 161.6 17.6 -0.6 0.7 3.0 -0.7

Nonagricultural industrial supplies & materials

  30.397 179.0 174.6 16.7 1.1 2.2 2.7 -2.5

Fuels & lubricants

11

6.066 313.4 275.0 39.3 6.4 7.8 5.4 -12.3

Nonagricultural supplies & materials excluding fuels & building materials

12

23.357 165.0 165.0 13.2 0.0 0.9 2.1 0.0

Selected building materials

13

0.974 113.9 113.9 -0.1 -0.2 -0.1 0.1 0.0

Capital goods

2

37.612 102.0 102.1 2.3 0.1 0.4 0.0 0.1

Electrical generating equipment

20

3.564 108.9 109.2 2.3 -0.1 0.0 0.3 0.3

Nonelectrical machinery

21

26.526 94.1 94.2 1.2 0.0 0.3 -0.1 0.1

Transportation equipment excluding motor vehicles (Dec. 2001=100)

22

7.522 130.6 130.7 6.2 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.1

Automotive vehicles, parts & engines

3

9.265 107.7 107.8 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1

Consumer goods, excluding automotives

4

11.465 108.5 108.8 2.4 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3

Nondurables, manufactured

40

5.379 109.9 110.4 3.0 0.2 0.1 -0.2 0.5

Durables, manufactured

41

5.123 106.0 106.1 1.8 0.0 0.1 0.8 0.1

Footnotes
(1) Relative importance figures are based on 2006 trade values.

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

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