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

All commodities

   100.000 133.5 134.6 -0.5 -1.7 0.4 1.0 0.8

Agricultural commodities

   11.968 228.0 230.4 6.7 -3.5 6.0 5.2 1.1

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

   80.498 102.2 102.6 -1.2 -0.8 -0.4 0.1 0.4

Nonagricultural commodities

   88.032 126.7 127.6 -1.5 -1.5 -0.2 0.4 0.7

Foods, feeds, & beverages

0

 11.087 230.1 232.2 8.6 -3.0 6.5 5.0 0.9

Agricultural foods, feeds & beverages, excluding distilled beverages

00

 10.359 234.3 236.7 8.9 -3.3 7.0 5.3 1.0

Nonagricultural foods (fish, distilled beverages)

01

 0.728 192.7 192.3 4.2 1.0 -0.2 1.5 -0.2

Industrial supplies & materials

1

 33.579 180.2 183.5 -4.8 -3.9 -0.4 1.4 1.8

Industrial supplies & materials, durable

   11.904 181.4 183.3 -6.8 -2.5 -0.7 -0.5 1.0

Industrial supplies & materials, nondurable

   21.676 180.4 184.4 -3.8 -4.8 -0.2 2.6 2.2

Agricultural industrial supplies & materials

10

 1.609 197.9 200.7 -5.6 -4.6 -0.2 4.8 1.4

Nonagricultural industrial supplies & materials

   31.970 179.8 183.1 -4.8 -3.9 -0.4 1.3 1.8

Fuels & lubricants

11

 8.415 261.6 273.0 -4.1 -8.7 0.6 4.7 4.4

Nonagricultural supplies & materials excluding fuels & building materials

12

 22.607 169.8 171.5 -5.4 -2.3 -0.8 0.1 1.0

Selected building materials

13

 0.948 118.7 118.9 2.7 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.2

Capital goods

2

 34.424 105.6 105.6 1.0 -0.2 -0.2 0.0 0.0

Electrical generating equipment

20

 3.533 113.6 113.9 -0.2 0.2 -0.7 0.1 0.3

Nonelectrical machinery

21

 24.923 94.8 94.8 0.6 -0.2 -0.1 -0.1 0.0

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

22

 5.968 149.2 149.2 3.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0

Automotive vehicles, parts & engines

3

 8.209 112.9 113.2 1.6 -0.1 0.2 -0.2 0.3

Consumer goods, excluding automotives

4

 12.701 116.4 116.6 -0.7 0.1 -0.5 0.0 0.2

Nondurables, manufactured

40

 5.910 114.9 115.3 0.5 0.0 -0.1 0.1 0.3

Durables, manufactured

41

 5.367 114.6 114.6 0.9 -0.2 -0.3 0.0 0.0

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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