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 2011 to August 2012
[2000=100, unless otherwise noted]
Description End
Use		 Relative
import-
ance
July
2012(1)		 Index Percent change
July
2012		 Aug.
2012		 Annual Monthly
Aug.
2011
to
Aug.
2012		 Apr.
2012
to
May
2012		 May
2012
to
June
2012		 June
2012
to
July
2012		 July
2012
to
Aug.
2012

All commodities

   100.000 132.2 133.4 -0.9 -0.5 -1.7 0.4 0.9

Agricultural commodities

   11.518 217.3 228.3 7.7 0.5 -3.5 6.3 5.1

All exports excluding food and fuels (Dec. 2010=100)

   81.196 102.1 102.1 -1.4 -0.2 -0.8 -0.4 0.0

Nonagricultural commodities

   88.483 126.1 126.6 -1.9 -0.6 -1.5 -0.3 0.4

Foods, feeds, & beverages

0

 10.690 219.7 230.3 10.2 0.7 -3.0 6.8 4.8

Agricultural foods, feeds & beverages, excluding distilled beverages

00

 9.967 223.2 234.6 10.7 0.8 -3.3 7.3 5.1

Nonagricultural foods (fish, distilled beverages)

01

 0.723 189.7 192.7 4.3 -1.6 1.0 -0.2 1.6

Industrial supplies & materials

1

 33.418 177.6 180.1 -6.1 -1.8 -3.9 -0.4 1.4

Industrial supplies & materials, durable

   12.083 182.3 181.2 -5.7 -0.7 -2.5 -0.7 -0.6

Industrial supplies & materials, nondurable

   21.334 175.9 180.2 -6.3 -2.4 -4.8 -0.2 2.4

Agricultural industrial supplies & materials

10

 1.551 188.8 198.1 -8.2 -1.7 -4.6 -0.2 4.9

Nonagricultural industrial supplies & materials

   31.867 177.4 179.6 -6.0 -1.9 -3.9 -0.4 1.2

Fuels & lubricants

11

 8.115 249.9 261.5 -8.0 -4.7 -8.7 0.6 4.6

Nonagricultural supplies & materials excluding fuels & building materials

12

 22.796 169.6 169.6 -5.6 -0.8 -2.3 -0.8 0.0

Selected building materials

13

 0.956 118.5 118.7 2.9 -0.3 0.7 0.3 0.2

Capital goods

2

 34.773 105.6 105.4 0.7 0.1 -0.2 -0.2 -0.2

Electrical generating equipment

20

 3.558 113.3 113.7 -0.4 0.8 0.2 -0.9 0.4

Nonelectrical machinery

21

 25.187 94.9 94.6 0.3 -0.1 -0.2 -0.1 -0.3

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

22

 6.028 149.2 149.1 2.8 0.1 0.0 0.1 -0.1

Automotive vehicles, parts & engines

3

 8.302 113.1 112.9 1.6 0.0 -0.1 0.2 -0.2

Consumer goods, excluding automotives

4

 12.818 116.3 116.3 -0.8 0.5 0.1 -0.6 0.0

Nondurables, manufactured

40

 5.956 114.7 114.8 -0.1 0.1 0.0 -0.2 0.1

Durables, manufactured

41

 5.420 114.6 114.5 1.3 1.1 -0.2 -0.3 -0.1

Footnotes
 (1) Relative importance figures are based on 2010 trade values.

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

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