China : Clothing & commodities rise in Nov PPI
Source: National Bureau Of Statistics of China Date: 2007-12-17
In November, Producers’ Price Index (PPI) for manufactured goods up by 4.6 percent from the same month last year; purchasing prices for raw material rose by 6.3 percent.
PPI for means of production increased 4.8 percent over last November. Of the total, PPIs for raw materials industry and manufacturing industry correspondingly up by 6.8 and 2.4 percent; that for means of consumer goods grew 3.7 percent.
Of which clothing and commodities rose 1.0 and 2.3 percent respectively, while that for durable consumer goods dropped 0.8 percent.
In terms of different categories:
In addition, wherein the purchasing price for raw materials, chemical materials increased 9.9 and 3.6 percent respectively, year-on-year.