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 2008 to September 2009 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Description End
Use
Relative
import-
ance
Aug.
2009(1)
Index Percent change
Aug.
2009
Sept.
2009
Annual Monthly
Sept.
2008
to
Sept.
2009
May
2009
to
June
2009
June
2009
to
July
2009
July
2009
to
Aug.
2009
Aug.
2009
to
Sept.
2009

All commodities

  100.000 118.2 117.9 -5.6 1.0 -0.3 0.7 -0.3

Agricultural commodities

  8.788 161.7 157.1 -16.6 4.2 -4.9 0.2 -2.8

Nonagricultural commodities

  91.213 115.1 115.1 -4.4 0.6 0.2 0.7 0.0

Foods, feeds, & beverages

0

8.134 164.7 158.3 -16.9 4.5 -5.6 -0.2 -3.9

Agricultural foods, feeds & beverages, excluding distilled beverages

00

7.479 167.3 160.5 -17.9 4.9 -6.2 -0.2 -4.1

Nonagricultural foods (fish, distilled beverages)

01

0.655 142.8 140.0 -3.8 0.1 1.1 -0.2 -2.0

Industrial supplies & materials

1

27.526 143.6 143.5 -15.3 2.0 0.1 2.2 -0.1

Industrial supplies & materials, durable

  10.720 147.8 150.2 -10.1 0.6 0.8 1.9 1.6

Industrial supplies & materials, nondurable

  16.807 141.8 140.2 -18.3 2.9 -0.4 2.4 -1.1

Agricultural industrial supplies & materials

10

1.309 138.5 144.3 -8.3 0.6 3.0 2.7 4.2

Nonagricultural industrial supplies & materials

  26.218 144.1 143.8 -15.6 2.0 -0.1 2.1 -0.2

Fuels & lubricants

11

3.999 181.4 169.1 -36.7 9.4 -5.3 9.3 -6.8

Nonagricultural supplies & materials excluding fuels & building materials

12

21.193 141.1 142.5 -11.4 0.9 0.9 0.9 1.0

Selected building materials

13

1.026 113.8 114.1 -1.1 0.4 -0.1 0.8 0.3

Capital goods

2

41.190 103.5 103.6 1.8 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.1

Electrical generating equipment

20

3.712 107.2 107.3 -2.0 0.2 -0.1 0.1 0.1

Nonelectrical machinery

21

28.539 94.8 95.1 1.3 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.3

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

22

8.938 137.4 137.1 4.9 0.4 0.1 0.0 -0.2

Automotive vehicles, parts & engines

3

10.290 107.9 107.9 0.0 -0.1 -0.2 0.1 0.0

Consumer goods, excluding automotives

4

12.860 109.1 109.2 -0.1 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.1

Nondurables, manufactured

40

5.720 109.1 109.4 0.4 0.6 0.1 0.5 0.3

Durables, manufactured

41

6.045 109.6 109.5 0.7 0.2 1.3 0.1 -0.1

Footnotes
(1) Relative importance figures are based on 2007 trade values.

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

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