| 1. | Excluding petroleum, the May import price index declined 0 . 3 percent.
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| 2. | Excluding petroleum, the May import price index decreased 0 . 3 percent.
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| 3. | The index is the ratio of export price index to import price index.
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| 4. | Excluding petroleum, the May import price index declined 0.3 percent.
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| 5. | Excluding petroleum, the May import price index decreased 0.3 percent.
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| 6. | The import price index declined 0.1 percent in August after falling 0.1 percent in July.
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| 7. | The combined producer and import price index rose for the first time since June 1995 in May.
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| 8. | The import price index declined 0 . 1 percent in August after falling 0 . 1 percent in July.
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| 9. | On an annual basis, the producer and import price index rose 1.0 percent, after rising 0.8 percent in the previous month.
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| 10. | The annual decrease was the largest recorded for the import price index since the government began issuing the numbers in 1983.
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