2004/4/7
Enterprise commodity wholesale prices under surveillance of the PBCshowed that, general prices rose by 1.3 percent on month-on-month basis, or 8.3percent from a year earlier in March. Prices of capital goods and consumergoods witnessed an increase of 1.4 percent and 1.2 percent respectivelycompared with February, or an increase of 8.8 percent and 7.4 percentrespectively from a year earlier. (See Table)
Table
Item
|
Month-on- month change (percent)
|
Year-on-year change (percent)
|
Grain
|
6.3
|
28.4
|
Cereal
|
8.5
|
33.2
|
Wheat
|
7.9
|
35.3
|
Corn
|
3.7
|
19.1
|
Soybean
|
2.5
|
26.9
|
Mung bean
|
1.5
|
12.3
|
Processed grain
|
4.5
|
24
|
|
|
|
Poultry
|
|
|
Chicken
|
1
|
-6.4
|
Duck
|
4.8
|
2.5
|
Goose
|
1.8
|
2.4
|
Hen's egg
|
1.5
|
17.3
|
Duck's egg
|
0.9
|
7.5
|
|
|
|
Cotton
|
-0.4
|
35.2
|
Textile
|
0.1
|
3.5
|
|
|
|
Agricultural products
|
2.7
|
14.4
|
Oil-bearing crops
|
0.5
|
16
|
Vegetable oil
|
0.6
|
21
|
Vegetable
|
-1.4
|
-15.3
|
|
|
|
Ferrous metal
|
|
|
Iron ore
|
3.4
|
26.3
|
|
|
|
Non-ferrous metal
|
7.9
|
36.3
|
Copper ore
|
5.8
|
31.3
|
Lead ore
|
16.9
|
79.2
|
|
|
|
Pig iron
|
10.3
|
74.5
|
Steel ingot
|
5.3
|
|
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