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Industrial prices rose by 0.3 per cent in June
29/08/2005
on August 29, 2005
The General index of industrial prices increased by 0.3 per cent last June from the previous month, mainly due to the increase of 4.4 per cent recorded in the activity of "coking and oil refining, of 0.4% in the"Metallurgy"and 0.3 per cent in the of"manufacture of motor vehicles"", trailers and semi-trailers", as reported by the National Institute of statistics (INE).
On the other hand, activities which recorded a decrease on may, the greater impact was "Chemical industry", with a decline of 1.1 per cent.
According to the classification by economic destination of the goods, the rates of change from the previous month are - 0.1% for the goods of consumption of 0,2% for equipment of - 0.2% for intermediate goods and 1.9 per cent for energy.
Annual rate, the industrial price index recorded an increase of 4.4% in June. The activities that influence this variation were "Coking and refining of oil" (27.2%), "Production and distribution of electricity and gas" (4.6%) and "Chemical industry" (4.5%).
