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: September 2007 to September 2008 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Description End
Use
Relative
import-
ance
Aug.
2008(1)
Index Percent change
Aug.
2008
Sept.
2008
Annual Monthly
Sept.
2007
to
Sept.
2008
May
2008
to
June
2008
June
2008
to
July
2008
July
2008
to
Aug.
2008
Aug.
2008
to
Sept.
2008

All commodities

  100.000 125.8 124.6 6.8 1.0 1.5 -1.7 -1.0

Agricultural commodities

  9.750 187.9 187.4 19.5 2.3 6.5 -9.6 -0.3

Nonagricultural commodities

  90.250 121.4 120.2 5.6 0.9 0.9 -0.7 -1.0

Foods, feeds, & beverages

0

8.833 189.1 189.1 19.8 2.4 6.6 -10.4 0.0

Agricultural foods, feeds & beverages, excluding distilled beverages

00

8.161 194.2 194.4 20.9 2.6 7.1 -11.1 0.1

Nonagricultural foods (fish, distilled beverages)

01

0.672 145.6 143.5 7.9 0.4 0.5 -0.9 -1.4

Industrial supplies & materials

1

31.775 173.7 169.1 13.6 2.1 2.6 -2.3 -2.6

Industrial supplies & materials, durable

  11.918 174.5 165.5 6.4 -0.3 1.1 -0.2 -5.2

Industrial supplies & materials, nondurable

  19.857 174.1 172.1 18.3 3.6 3.6 -3.5 -1.1

Agricultural industrial supplies & materials

10

1.589 161.5 158.0 12.9 0.7 3.0 -0.8 -2.2

Nonagricultural industrial supplies & materials

  30.187 174.7 170.0 13.7 2.2 2.6 -2.3 -2.7

Fuels & lubricants

11

5.421 275.2 268.8 33.8 7.8 5.3 -12.1 -2.3

Nonagricultural supplies & materials excluding fuels & building materials

12

23.771 165.0 160.3 10.6 0.9 2.0 0.1 -2.8

Selected building materials

13

0.995 114.4 113.8 -0.5 -0.1 0.1 0.4 -0.5

Capital goods

2

38.279 102.0 101.9 2.0 0.4 -0.1 0.1 -0.1

Electrical generating equipment

20

3.635 109.2 109.6 2.7 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.4

Nonelectrical machinery

21

26.984 94.1 93.9 0.9 0.3 -0.2 0.1 -0.2

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

22

7.659 130.6 130.7 5.9 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.1

Automotive vehicles, parts & engines

3

9.435 107.8 107.9 1.5 -0.1 0.3 0.1 0.1

Consumer goods, excluding automotives

4

11.677 108.6 108.3 2.0 0.1 0.4 0.0 -0.3

Nondurables, manufactured

40

5.472 109.9 109.0 1.9 0.1 -0.1 -0.1 -0.8

Durables, manufactured

41

5.225 106.3 106.4 2.1 0.1 0.9 0.2 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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