The producer price index (PPI) in July 2009 was 175.8 points (4th quarter 2005 = 100), 3.5% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 220.7 points which is 1.4% higher than in June 2009 (effect on the index 0.5%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 182.0 points, 7.6% higher (2.5%). The PPI for food products was 0.5% (0.1%) higher than in June and the PPI for other manufactured products rose by 2.4% (0.5%).
The PPI for domestically sold products was 1.2% higher (0.4%) than in the previous month while the index for exported products increased 4.4% (3.1%).
From July 2008 the PPI has increased by 12.2%. The PPI for fish products has increased by 27.8% and the PPI for power intensive industry products has decreased by 8.4%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose by 14.3%.
| Monthly changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2008 | ||||||
| July | 2.4 | -0.3 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 2.0 |
| August | 1.9 | 0.2 | 7.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.8 |
| September | 3.9 | 8.6 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 5.4 |
| October | 12.7 | 20.3 | 14.7 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 17.8 |
| November | 5.4 | 9.9 | 2.2 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 6.8 |
| December | -7.1 | -6.4 | -18.5 | 2.8 | 2.1 | -11.7 |
| 2009 | ||||||
| January | -7.3 | -5.4 | -17.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | -11.0 |
| February | -8.3 | -14.1 | -12.7 | -0.3 | 2.3 | -13.3 |
| March | -1.6 | -1.0 | -5.2 | -0.2 | 0.2 | -2.4 |
| April | 7.2 | 11.4 | 10.2 | 0.3 | -0.2 | 10.7 |
| May | 2.4 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 0.2 | -0.5 | 3.7 |
| June | 1.1 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.5 |
| July | 3.5 | 1.4 | 7.6 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 4.4 |
| Annual changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2008 | ||||||
| July | 35.7 | 44.3 | 48.3 | 14.4 | 16.8 | 47.4 |
| August | 31.9 | 36.7 | 46.4 | 15.2 | 16.3 | 41.1 |
| September | 39.6 | 47.3 | 62.0 | 15.9 | 17.8 | 53.1 |
| October | 61.4 | 80.4 | 101.5 | 19.2 | 21.5 | 87.9 |
| November | 68.5 | 93.1 | 101.2 | 22.4 | 26.3 | 96.1 |
| December | 53.2 | 77.3 | 56.8 | 25.7 | 28.3 | 67.8 |
| 2009 | ||||||
| January | 39.2 | 62.7 | 31.1 | 24.3 | 24.8 | 47.2 |
| February | 23.8 | 35.5 | 8.0 | 23.2 | 25.9 | 22.6 |
| March | 11.6 | 19.2 | -15.3 | 21.7 | 27.3 | 3.9 |
| April | 12.5 | 28.6 | -16.5 | 14.8 | 19.1 | 8.4 |
| May | 13.9 | 33.9 | -12.6 | 13.4 | 15.7 | 12.0 |
| June | 11.0 | 25.6 | -13.3 | 14.2 | 15.7 | 7.6 |
| July | 12.2 | 27.8 | -8.4 | 14.3 | 13.6 | 10.2 |
In evaluating the price changes accounted for here, it may be taken into consideration that the trade-weighted average price of foreign exchange in July 2009 was 1.0% higher than in the preceding month whereas it was 45.5% higher than in July 2008.