Table 7 U.S. Import Price Indexes, by Locality of Origin

Table 7. U.S. import price indexes and percent changes by locality of origin: May 2008 to May 2009 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Description Percent
of
U.S.
imports(1)		 Index Percent change
Apr.
2009		 May
2009		 Annual Monthly
May
2008
to
May
2009		 Jan.
2009
to
Feb.
2009		 Feb.
2009
to
Mar.
2009		 Mar.
2009
to
Apr.
2009		 Apr.
2009
to
May
2009

Industrialized Countries(2)

 42.434 116.7 117.2 -14.5 -0.5 -0.3 -0.6 0.4

Nonmanufactured articles

 4.390 146.7 153.4 -52.7 -3.6 1.6 2.3 4.6

Manufactured articles

 37.621 113.8 113.9 -7.4 -0.3 -0.3 -0.9 0.1

Other Countries(3)

 57.566 112.3 114.0 -19.8 0.1 1.1 1.7 1.5

Nonmanufactured articles

 12.442 181.7 194.8 -47.2 0.5 8.2 8.9 7.2

Manufactured articles

 44.910 102.0 102.2 -7.4 0.0 -0.2 0.3 0.2

Canada

 15.963 123.0 124.8 -24.5 -2.1 -0.5 -1.0 1.5

Nonmanufactured articles

 3.979 140.6 146.6 -54.5 -4.5 1.7 1.0 4.3

Manufactured articles

 11.678 120.7 121.4 -10.1 -1.6 -1.0 -1.5 0.6

European Union(4)

 17.447 123.5 123.5 -7.0 -0.2 -0.4 -0.1 0.0

Nonmanufactured articles

 0.222 195.5 206.3 -47.0 -15.5 0.4 3.8 5.5

Manufactured articles

 17.133 121.4 121.3 -6.0 -0.1 -0.3 -0.1 -0.1

France (Dec. 2003=100)

 1.954 120.0 120.0 1.0 -0.8 0.3 0.6 0.0

Germany (Dec. 2003=100)

 4.735 108.3 108.2 -4.3 -0.1 -0.7 -0.1 -0.1

United Kingdom (Dec. 2003=100)

 2.660 118.5 118.8 -15.7 -0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3

Latin America(5)

 17.808 136.6 140.1 -24.7 -1.3 0.2 3.2 2.6

Nonmanufactured articles

 5.160 209.1 222.5 -40.8 -3.0 5.3 10.5 6.4

Manufactured articles

 12.547 122.6 123.9 -14.1 -0.8 -1.6 0.6 1.1

Mexico (Dec. 2003=100)

 10.785 128.2 130.9 -12.5 -1.6 -0.7 2.7 2.1

Nonmanufactured articles (Dec. 2008=100)

 1.947 113.6 120.7 - -6.4 7.1 15.2 6.3

Manufactured articles (Dec. 2008=100)

 8.788 95.9 96.9 - -0.5 -2.4 0.4 1.0

Pacific Rim (Dec. 2003=100)(6)

 33.590 99.1 99.1 -3.1 -0.5 -0.4 -0.2 0.0

China (Dec. 2003=100)

 16.852 100.4 100.3 -1.9 -0.5 -0.6 -0.5 -0.1

Japan

 7.488 96.2 96.2 1.4 0.2 -0.1 -0.1 0.0

Asian NICs(7)

 5.647 84.9 84.7 -6.9 -0.7 -0.8 -0.7 -0.2

ASEAN (Dec. 2003=100)(8)

 5.729 95.6 95.7 -6.5 -0.6 -0.1 0.3 0.1

Asia Near East (Dec. 2003=100)(9)

 3.992 161.4 171.5 -41.7 1.1 15.1 6.2 6.3

Footnotes
 (1) Percentage of trade figures are based on 2007 trade values.
(2) Includes Western Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
(3) Includes Eastern Europe, Latin America, OPEC countries, and other countries in Asia, Africa and the Western Hemisphere.
(4) Includes European Union countries.
(5) Includes Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
(6) Includes China, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Macao, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Asian Newly Industrialized Countries.
(7) Asian Newly Industrialized Countries. Includes Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
(8) Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
(9) Includes Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

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

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