Enterprise commodity prices1 under surveillance of the PBC showed that general prices rose by 0.2 percent on month-on-month basis, or 6.3 percent from a year earlier in November. Prices of capital goods2 rose by 0.3 percent compared with October, or by 7.2 percent from a year earlier. Prices of consumer goods3 fell by 0.2 percent from the previous month, and rose by 4.3 percent from a year earlier. (See Table)
Table
Item |
Month-on- month change (percent) |
Year-on-year change (percent) |
Primary products |
0.6 |
13.2 |
Semi-finished products |
0.3 |
6.2 |
Final products |
-0.1 |
3.8 |
Agricultural products |
-0.5 |
7.5 |
Unprocessed grain |
-1.2 |
12.5 |
Cotton |
-6.4 |
-31.5 |
Oil-bearing crops |
-0.4 |
2.2 |
Vegetable |
-2.7 |
-21.1 |
Animal husbandry products |
-1 |
10.1 |
Fishery products |
0.4 |
6.8 |
Processed grain |
-0.1 |
17.5 |
Vegetable oil |
-1.1 |
-3.7 |
Refined sugar |
-5.5 |
8.4 |
Livestock meat products |
0 |
2.2 |
Processed aquatic products |
0 |
5.5 |
Mineral products |
0.8 |
14.7 |
Metal smelting and casting products |
0.6 |
18.1 |
Pig iron |
-0.6 |
11.9 |
Steel ingot |
0.5 |
26.2 |
Construction Steel |
0.2 |
14.6 |
Ferrous metal products |
2 |
25.3 |
Copper |
2.1 |
39.5 |
Lead |
0.3 |
32.4 |
Zinc |
0.1 |
17.9 |
Alumina |
1.9 |
23.3 |
Gold |
4.1 |
13.2 |
Silver |
6.2 |
43 |
Coal, oil and electricity |
2.2 |
19.8 |
Coal |
3.8 |
41.7 |
Coke |
2 |
21.1 |
Crude oil |
5.6 |
30.2 |
Refined oil |
2 |
21.8 |
Gasoline |
3.3 |
24.1 |
Diesel |
2.2 |
26.6 |
Electricity |
0 |
4.5 |
Fertilizers |
0.3 |
17.8 |
Pesticide |
0.2 |
3.5 |
Machinery equipment for farming, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing |
0.1 |
3.3 |
Fodder |
-0.6 |
0.9 |
Textile |
-0.1 |
-0.7 |
Processed timber and furniture |
0.6 |
5.7 |
Medical products |
0.1 |
-2.2 |
Transportation equipment |
0.2 |
-4 |
Durable consumer goods |
-0.1 |
-1.2 |
Daily-used electrical appliance |
-0.2 |
-3 |
1 Enterprise commodity prices: a composite price index compiled by the PBC, which reflects the trend and extent of the movement of commodity trading prices among enterprises. Commodity referred in the survey covers all social material products, including capital goods and consumer goods. The survey tracks the centralized trading prices emerged in the first phase of the wholesale process among enterprises. For commodities sold not through the wholesalers but to consumers directly, the trading prices are called the producers price
2 Capital goods: fixed assets and non-fixed assets investment products centrally traded in the first phase of the wholesale process among enterprises
3 Consumer goods: food and non-food consumer products centrally traded in the first phase of the wholesale process among enterprises
