Import/Export Price Indexes

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METHODOLOGY
PAPERS & ARTICLES USING MXP DATA
- "Price Measures of New Vehicles: A Comparison" by Maria Bustinza, Thaddious Foster, Tod Reese, David Yochum, and Daniel Chow.
- Import and Export Price Trends in 2006" by Carol Rowan and Sonya Wahi-Miller
- "Price and Expenditure Measures of Petroleum Products: A Comparison" by Abby Duly, Jeffrey Harris, Ara Khatchadourian, Rozi Ulics, and Melissa Wolter
- Import Price Rise in 2005 Due to Continued High Energy Prices" by Jeffrey Bogen
- "IPP Introduces Additional Locality of Origin Import Price Indexes" by Helen McCulley and Melissa Schwartz
- "U.S. Import and Export Prices in 2004" by Kristen Locatelli
- "U.S. Import and Export Prices in 2003" by Melissa Schwartz
- "International Price Comparisons Based on Purchasing Power Parity" by Michelle Vachris and James Thomas
- "Using Dissaggregated Data to Dissect the U.S. Trade Deficit" by William Alterman
- "Coping with the Rising Yen: Japan's Recent Export Experience" by Thomas Klitgaard
- "Are Producer Prices Good Proxies for Export Prices?" by Bill Alterman
- "Imputation and Price Indexes: Theory and Evidence from the International Price Program" by Robert C. Feenstra and Erwin W. Diewert
- "Explaining Tranquility in the Midst of Turbulence: U.S. Multinationals' Intrafirm Trade, 1966-1997" by Subramanian Rangan
- "Transfer Pricing, Intrafirm Trade and the BLS International Price Program" by Lorraine Eden
- "The Behavior of Intrafirm Trade Prices in U.S. International Price Data" by Kimberly A. Clausing
- "Exchange Rates and the Prices of Manufacturing Products Imported into the United States" by Giovanni P. Olivei
IMPORT PRICES BY SELECTED LOCALITIES
SELECTED IMPORT INDEXES
SELECTED EXPORT INDEXES

Table 2. U.S. export price indexes for selected categories of goods 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Category	End Use	Relative import- ance Sept. 2008(1)	Months
Category	End Use	Relative import- ance Sept. 2008(1)	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
All commodities		100.000
1983			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	85.7	-	-	85.4
1984			-	-	85.9	-	-	87.1	-	-	85.1	-	-	84.2
1985			-	-	84.0	-	-	84.4	-	-	83.7	-	-	83.8
1986			-	-	83.6	-	-	83.3	-	-	82.4	-	-	83.3
1987			-	-	84.3	-	-	86.0	-	-	86.6	-	-	88.3
1988			-	-	89.8	-	-	92.2	-	-	94.1	-	-	93.8
1989			94.9	94.6	95.2	95.0	95.4	95.2	94.7	94.0	94.4	94.6	94.2	94.4
1990			95.2	94.6	94.8	95.1	95.3	95.1	95.3	95.4	95.8	96.6	96.7	96.3
1991			96.8	96.7	96.4	96.6	96.4	96.1	95.7	96.0	95.6	96.6	96.7	95.7
1992			95.7	96.3	96.2	96.4	96.7	96.5	96.6	96.3	96.6	96.3	96.2	96.3
1993			96.4	96.7	96.6	96.8	97.1	96.9	97.0	97.0	96.9	96.9	97.0	97.3
1994			98.0	98.0	98.2	98.2	98.5	98.5	98.7	98.9	99.1	99.7	100.4	101.1
1995			101.9	102.5	103.0	104.0	104.3	104.5	104.8	104.3	104.4	104.5	104.5	104.4
1996			104.9	104.7	104.6	105.2	105.6	105.4	104.9	104.7	103.9	103.6	103.2	103.2
1997			103.3	103.5	103.6	103.6	103.4	103.2	103.2	103.2	102.9	102.5	102.5	102.0
1998			101.3	101.0	100.7	100.3	100.4	99.9	99.5	99.0	98.5	98.4	98.6	98.5
1999			98.5	98.3	97.9	98.1	98.2	98.2	98.1	98.4	98.5	98.8	99.0	99.0
2000			99.2	99.6	100.0	100.0	100.2	100.1	100.0	99.8	100.4	100.3	100.3	100.1
2001			100.3	100.2	100.0	99.9	99.6	99.4	99.0	98.8	99.0	98.3	97.8	97.6
2002			97.5	97.3	97.6	98.0	98.0	98.0	98.3	98.5	98.8	98.7	98.8	98.6
2003			98.9	99.5	99.7	99.6	99.7	99.5	99.4	99.4	99.8	100.0	100.5	100.8
2004			101.5	102.2	103.0	103.7	104.1	103.4	103.9	103.4	103.8	104.4	104.7	104.8
2005			105.6	105.7	106.4	106.9	106.7	106.7	106.8	106.6	107.5	108.3	107.6	107.7
2006			108.5	108.6	108.8	109.6	110.4	111.2	111.6	112.1	111.7	111.4	111.8	112.5
2007			113.0	113.9	114.7	115.2	115.5	116.0	116.1	116.3	116.7	117.6	118.7	119.3
2008			120.7	121.8	123.8	124.4	124.8	126.1	128.0	125.9	124.9	122.5	-	-

Agricultural commodities	AG	9.839
1985			-	-	98.3	-	-	98.2	-	-	94.2	-	-	95.7
1986			-	-	93.9	-	-	92.9	-	-	83.1	-	-	87.7
1987			-	-	86.7	-	-	91.7	-	-	89.0	-	-	95.9
1988			-	-	97.6	-	-	107.2	-	-	116.5	-	-	110.1
1989			114.2	112.1	113.7	111.0	114.4	112.2	112.4	108.2	107.5	107.1	106.8	106.0
1990			107.6	105.2	105.8	107.5	109.8	107.7	107.9	103.5	103.4	101.3	100.8	100.9
1991			102.3	102.7	102.9	104.1	104.4	104.3	100.3	103.4	102.2	105.8	105.5	102.6
1992			101.6	104.8	104.8	103.1	103.4	104.0	103.3	99.6	102.0	100.0	100.7	102.1
1993			102.9	102.3	101.9	102.3	103.3	100.3	105.5	105.8	105.2	105.0	107.4	110.6
1994			113.4	111.9	112.6	110.3	111.8	109.3	106.9	105.7	106.2	106.1	107.8	110.4
1995			110.3	110.8	112.4	114.5	115.3	117.0	121.4	119.7	123.3	125.7	128.4	129.5
1996			131.7	131.4	133.1	139.6	143.9	140.8	138.1	137.8	127.9	124.5	121.6	120.5
1997			120.7	123.2	125.1	124.6	123.1	120.5	119.3	119.3	119.3	117.2	118.0	117.0
1998			113.8	112.1	111.5	109.7	110.8	110.8	111.2	106.7	103.5	103.7	105.5	106.1
1999			106.2	103.7	100.6	101.0	101.4	101.1	98.9	100.8	100.7	100.6	99.6	98.9
2000			99.0	100.0	100.4	101.3	101.9	100.5	98.3	96.3	99.4	99.9	100.9	102.0
2001			102.5	101.0	101.3	100.8	100.8	100.9	101.8	102.8	102.5	100.7	99.2	100.2
2002			100.9	98.3	98.9	99.6	99.5	100.7	103.4	105.2	108.6	106.6	108.7	108.2
2003			108.3	107.9	107.5	107.9	110.6	110.0	109.9	108.8	114.7	117.5	122.2	122.7
2004			123.5	125.3	129.7	133.0	133.7	127.4	126.1	115.5	117.6	116.3	116.7	115.4
2005			116.1	115.5	119.9	120.3	122.7	123.9	123.9	123.2	121.5	121.9	121.6	121.0
2006			121.7	120.8	120.7	120.2	120.9	124.1	126.5	127.7	127.1	128.4	134.1	137.3
2007			138.1	142.0	145.0	142.9	142.8	146.7	149.0	150.5	156.8	162.8	165.0	169.3
2008			177.5	185.6	194.3	190.5	190.8	195.2	208.2	188.2	188.3	172.0	-	-

Nonagricultural commodities	EXAG	90.163
1985			-	-	82.1	-	-	82.4	-	-	82.2	-	-	82.0
1986			-	-	82.0	-	-	81.7	-	-	82.0	-	-	82.4
1987			-	-	83.7	-	-	85.2	-	-	86.2	-	-	87.3
1988			-	-	88.5	-	-	90.2	-	-	91.1	-	-	91.7
1989			92.5	92.4	92.8	93.1	92.9	93.0	92.5	92.2	92.8	93.1	92.6	93.0
1990			93.7	93.4	93.5	93.5	93.5	93.5	93.7	94.4	95.1	96.2	96.4	96.1
1991			96.2	96.1	95.9	95.7	95.3	95.3	95.1	94.9	95.0	95.2	95.4	95.1
1992			94.8	95.1	95.2	95.4	95.7	95.8	95.9	96.2	96.3	96.1	95.9	95.9
1993			95.9	96.2	96.2	96.4	96.6	96.7	96.3	96.2	96.1	96.1	96.1	96.0
1994			96.4	96.6	96.7	97.0	97.2	97.5	98.0	98.3	98.5	99.2	99.8	100.2
1995			101.1	101.8	102.2	103.0	103.3	103.3	103.1	102.8	102.5	102.4	102.1	101.9
1996			102.2	102.0	101.6	101.6	101.6	101.7	101.4	101.2	101.4	101.5	101.4	101.5
1997			101.6	101.5	101.5	101.5	101.4	101.5	101.6	101.6	101.2	101.0	100.9	100.5
1998			100.1	99.9	99.6	99.4	99.3	98.8	98.4	98.3	98.0	97.9	97.9	97.8
1999			97.8	97.8	97.7	97.9	97.9	97.9	98.0	98.2	98.3	98.7	99.0	99.0
2000			99.2	99.6	100.0	99.9	100.1	100.0	100.2	100.1	100.5	100.3	100.2	99.9
2001			100.1	100.1	99.9	99.8	99.5	99.3	98.8	98.5	98.6	98.1	97.7	97.4
2002			97.2	97.2	97.5	97.8	97.8	97.8	97.9	97.9	98.0	98.1	98.0	97.8
2003			98.2	98.8	99.1	99.0	98.8	98.7	98.6	98.7	98.6	98.7	98.8	99.1
2004			99.8	100.4	100.9	101.4	101.7	101.5	102.2	102.5	102.8	103.6	103.9	104.1
2005			104.9	105.0	105.4	106.0	105.5	105.4	105.5	105.4	106.5	107.3	106.6	106.8
2006			107.6	107.8	108.0	108.8	109.6	110.3	110.5	111.0	110.6	110.1	110.2	110.7
2007			111.2	111.9	112.6	113.2	113.6	113.8	113.7	113.8	113.8	114.4	115.4	115.7
2008			116.6	117.3	118.8	119.6	120.1	121.2	122.3	121.5	120.4	119.0	-	-

Foods, feeds, & beverages	0	8.946
1983			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	120.3	-	-	114.3
1984			-	-	111.7	-	-	118.5	-	-	106.9	-	-	99.9
1985			-	-	98.2	-	-	97.8	-	-	93.3	-	-	95.1
1986			-	-	92.9	-	-	92.4	-	-	83.8	-	-	86.6
1987			-	-	83.9	-	-	87.9	-	-	84.5	-	-	92.8
1988			-	-	94.6	-	-	105.8	-	-	119.6	-	-	112.7
1989			117.5	114.2	116.0	112.2	116.1	112.6	111.3	106.3	105.9	104.9	104.8	104.0
1990			105.6	102.2	103.1	104.8	107.7	104.5	105.1	100.6	100.4	97.7	97.5	97.4
1991			98.8	99.4	100.2	101.3	101.5	101.6	97.0	102.2	100.6	104.8	105.7	101.7
1992			100.9	104.8	105.4	103.1	103.0	103.3	101.6	97.1	100.0	97.4	98.6	99.6
1993			100.4	99.7	99.6	100.1	101.5	98.7	103.5	104.0	103.5	103.2	105.8	109.0
1994			112.0	108.8	109.8	107.6	109.2	105.9	103.4	102.5	102.7	102.9	104.3	106.1
1995			105.2	105.9	107.4	110.1	111.1	112.8	118.5	117.8	121.7	124.4	126.8	127.2
1996			129.7	129.8	131.8	138.8	143.5	140.7	138.6	138.0	126.3	122.6	120.3	118.9
1997			118.5	120.7	122.7	122.4	121.1	118.4	117.1	117.8	117.8	115.5	115.9	115.0
1998			112.2	110.0	109.3	107.6	108.6	107.8	109.3	105.2	101.9	102.6	104.9	105.5
1999			106.0	103.5	101.1	102.1	103.0	102.9	100.3	101.7	101.4	101.2	100.3	99.5
2000			99.9	100.9	100.8	101.6	102.2	100.8	98.5	95.8	98.7	99.3	100.3	101.2
2001			102.1	100.2	101.0	100.2	99.8	100.4	101.7	102.6	102.6	101.2	99.7	100.7
2002			102.0	98.9	99.7	100.3	100.4	101.5	104.0	106.1	109.8	107.6	109.6	108.7
2003			108.7	108.3	108.2	108.5	111.8	111.3	110.8	109.4	115.3	117.2	121.4	122.4
2004			123.1	125.6	130.5	134.8	135.6	129.1	128.0	116.5	118.7	117.5	118.3	116.9
2005			117.1	116.4	120.9	121.0	123.6	125.2	125.4	124.9	122.8	123.0	122.5	121.9
2006			122.8	121.9	121.7	121.0	122.0	125.6	128.5	129.5	128.8	130.2	135.8	138.7
2007			139.0	143.5	146.9	145.3	145.1	148.6	149.2	151.4	157.8	164.1	165.9	171.1
2008			180.5	188.7	196.9	192.8	193.3	198.0	211.5	189.6	190.2	173.9	-	-

Agricultural foods, feeds & beverages, excluding distilled beverages	00	8.279
1983			-	-	102.2	-	-	108.5	-	-	125.5	-	-	118.8
1984			-	-	116.0	-	-	123.4	-	-	110.9	-	-	103.4
1985			-	-	101.4	-	-	100.8	-	-	95.9	-	-	98.0
1986			-	-	95.5	-	-	94.6	-	-	85.2	-	-	88.1
1987			-	-	85.1	-	-	89.0	-	-	85.1	-	-	93.7
1988			-	-	95.6	-	-	107.5	-	-	121.2	-	-	113.8
1989			-	-	117.5	-	-	114.2	-	-	107.9	-	-	106.0
1990			-	-	105.1	-	-	106.8	-	-	102.2	-	-	99.0
1991			-	-	102.1	-	-	103.8	-	-	103.1	-	-	103.9
1992			-	-	107.5	-	-	105.5	-	-	102.0	99.3	100.6	101.9
1993			102.8	102.2	101.7	102.0	103.6	100.2	106.9	107.0	106.2	106.3	109.2	112.7
1994			115.9	112.5	113.1	110.0	111.4	108.2	105.2	103.4	103.6	103.4	104.9	106.8
1995			105.8	106.2	107.3	110.3	111.4	113.4	119.9	119.3	123.6	126.8	129.9	130.8
1996			134.0	134.2	136.7	144.9	150.1	146.5	143.7	142.8	129.8	125.4	122.5	121.0
1997			120.7	123.7	126.0	125.8	124.4	121.5	119.9	119.9	119.7	117.1	117.9	117.0
1998			114.3	112.6	111.6	109.7	110.9	110.1	111.0	105.9	102.5	103.0	105.7	106.5
1999			106.7	103.8	100.6	101.2	101.6	101.6	99.4	101.8	101.5	101.2	100.2	99.3
2000			99.9	100.7	100.9	101.9	102.6	100.9	98.4	95.2	98.6	99.1	100.4	101.5
2001			102.2	100.4	101.2	100.6	100.6	101.2	102.4	104.0	103.6	102.2	100.7	101.6
2002			102.6	99.4	100.0	100.8	100.9	101.7	104.5	106.7	110.7	108.2	110.4	109.5
2003			109.4	108.8	108.1	108.6	112.1	111.2	111.0	109.5	116.3	118.4	122.8	123.8
2004			124.6	127.2	132.4	137.0	138.0	131.1	129.9	117.0	119.3	117.8	118.5	116.6
2005			116.7	116.0	120.7	120.9	123.8	125.6	125.6	124.9	122.6	122.9	122.4	121.7
2006			122.8	121.6	121.5	120.8	121.9	125.7	128.9	129.8	129.1	130.9	137.4	140.5
2007			140.8	145.6	149.2	146.8	147.0	151.0	151.5	153.7	160.8	167.6	169.8	175.2
2008			185.0	193.8	202.6	198.2	198.9	204.0	218.9	194.7	195.7	177.5	-	-

Wheat and rice	000	0.888
1984			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	123.2
1985			-	-	120.9	-	-	116.2	-	-	109.7	-	-	117.9
1986			-	-	112.4	-	-	92.4	-	-	83.7	-	-	89.0
1987			-	-	85.5	-	-	77.6	-	-	83.3	-	-	92.2
1988			-	-	90.9	-	-	106.2	-	-	124.2	-	-	124.1
1989			-	-	131.8	-	-	132.7	-	-	133.4	-	-	128.0
1990			-	-	117.3	-	-	113.2	-	-	98.4	-	-	82.4
1991			-	-	79.4	-	-	97.7	-	-	92.4	-	-	113.9
1992			-	-	118.0	-	-	111.9	-	-	115.7	-	-	117.1
1993			-	-	112.4	-	-	97.6	-	-	107.0	-	-	113.6
1994			124.6	116.9	120.0	111.0	121.7	100.4	103.0	104.5	109.2	123.9	126.8	127.0
1995			120.1	120.6	114.4	118.6	125.2	127.6	147.8	147.0	152.6	158.9	167.3	169.3
1996			166.6	173.1	172.8	186.5	192.1	178.0	164.4	157.9	144.7	146.0	144.8	142.1
1997			141.2	140.9	144.1	152.4	142.8	129.1	126.2	133.5	134.7	130.7	132.8	132.3
1998			123.5	126.1	124.2	120.8	118.2	114.0	111.6	102.2	99.3	109.4	115.1	114.5
1999			114.1	110.3	107.3	108.5	106.2	105.5	101.4	103.0	105.6	101.4	100.5	95.5
2000			97.3	99.9	98.7	97.9	100.9	99.2	98.2	92.1	98.4	103.5	105.8	108.0
2001			110.1	108.0	110.1	106.2	109.5	108.2	104.4	104.8	106.7	107.7	110.4	108.8
2002			112.1	108.4	107.5	108.7	105.8	108.0	117.2	122.9	141.6	143.6	144.8	133.9
2003			126.0	126.2	123.9	118.4	123.8	116.6	114.0	124.1	127.8	125.3	129.8	138.8
2004			138.5	136.4	138.4	145.1	146.6	139.1	134.4	127.0	127.5	128.6	129.3	128.1
2005			131.3	129.7	132.8	125.2	125.6	126.8	125.4	123.4	126.4	136.1	133.6	134.9
2006			136.9	139.4	142.6	140.1	142.7	149.9	155.7	150.4	154.3	161.0	167.7