NEWS RELEASE PRICES 30 AUGUST 2007

The producer price index (PPI) in July 2007 was 115.5 points, 2.3% lower than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 119.7 points, unchanged from June, and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 134.0 points, 6.5% lower (-1.3%). The PPI for food products was 0.1% higher than in June (0.0%) while the PPI for other manufactured products declined 3.9% (-1.0%).

The PPI for domestically sold products was 1.1% lower than in the previous month (-0.4%) while the index for exported products declined 3.0% (-1.9%).

From July 2006, the PPI has decreased by 6.5%; the PPI for fish products fell by 6.8% and the PPI for power intensive industry products by 10.2%. The PPI for food products rose by 2.2% in the same period.

Monthly changes (%)
2007 PPI Marine Power intensive Food  Domestic Exported
    products industry products production sales products
January 0.9 0.4 4.1 0.7 0.2 1.3
February -3.1 -3.5 -3.7 0.7 -0.2 -4.8
March 0.0 -0.3 0.4 -0.4 0.6 -0.3
April -0.5 0.4 -3.6 0.1 0.1 -0.9
May -2.4 -4.2 -1.2 0.0 -0.5 -3.5
June -0.1 -1.0 -1.3 -0.1 0.8 -0.7
July -2.3 0.0 -6.5 0.1 -1.1 -3.0


Annual changes (%)
2007 PPI Marine Power intensive Food  Domestic Exported
    products industry products production sales products
January 22.4 28.6 42.0 7.1 8.0 30.9
February 15.6 23.1 24.9 6.8 7.1 20.2
March 9.5 14.4 12.2 5.8 7.3 10.4
April 3.9 6.7 1.2 4.9 6.9 2.1
May 1.0 2.0 -3.2 4.0 5.5 -1.7
June -4.8 -4.5 -14.8 2.3 4.1 -9.5
Júlí -6.5 -6.8 -10.2 2.2 0.9 -10.7

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Further Information

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