2 hours agoPrices amount to about 4 percent
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The Kosovo Statistics Agency (ASK) has published the Import Awards Index for the third quarter 2017. The AKS reports that Kosovo's total import prices index rose to an average of 1.8 per cent in the third quarter, compared to the second quarter 2017. Larger price hikes [...]
The AKS reports that Kosovo's total import prices index rose to an average of 1.8 per cent in the third quarter, compared to the second quarter 2017.
Greater price hikes were at 6.7 percent; basic metals and metal articles 3.7 percent; shoes 2.2 percent; textiles and its articles 2 percent; livestock and animal products 1.3 percent; mineral products 1.1 percent; letters and articles of 0.9 percent; plastic, rubber, and their 0.6 percent food articles; food items prepared, alcohol and tobacco 0.5 percent; and stone products, mortar products, chemical products, and 0.5 percent glass.
The increase was neutralised, mainly by the decline of prices according to sectors: the skin and its articles - 7.3 percent; the various products produced -2.8 percent; the equipment of machinery and electrical equipment -1.6 percent; the optical instruments, photographs, measurements, medicine, and music, and the mechanisms of clock -1.5 percent; the nutrients -1.3 percent; the chemical industry products -0.2 percent; wood and timber -0 percent and transportation -0 percent.
Meanwhile, compared to the 2016 quarter, it becomes known that import prices in Kosovo rose to an average of 3.9 percent.
Larger lifts were among: plant products 18.6 percent; mineral products 10.4 percent; basic metals and metal articles 10.4 percent; textiles and articles from it 4.8 percent; stone, mortar, caramics and glass products 4.1 percent; plastic, rubber, and their 3.2 percent; optics, cameras, measurements, medicine, and music mechanisms; and living products 3.8 percent; and 3.6 percent for wood; and 3.2 percent for oil; food products; and alcohol; and alcohol; and 0.2 percent.
The rise was neutralised, mainly by the fall of prices according to sectors: the skin and its products -3.5 percent; its paper and articles -3.3 percent; shoes -2.9 percent; various products produced -2.3 percent; machine equipment and electrical equipment -2.2 percent; chemical industry products -0.9 percent; and transportation -0.7 percent.
