JUNE KEY FIGURES

	Mar Qtr 14 to Jun Qtr 14	Jun Qtr 13 to Jun Qtr 14
	% change	% change
Import Price Index all groups	-3.0	5.7
Food and live animals	-0.6	13.9
Beverages and tobacco	-0.8	7.0
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	-2.0	10.4
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	-4.8	10.0
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	-9.4	-1.3
Chemicals and related products, n.e.s.	-1.5	2.4
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	-2.2	3.7
Machinery and transport equipment	-2.6	4.2
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	-3.5	8.0
Commodities and transactions, n.e.s.	-4.5	-3.1
Export Price Index all groups	-7.9	-1.9
Food and live animals	2.0	9.9
Beverages and tobacco	-0.4	3.6
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	-14.9	-8.8
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	-7.3	-0.6
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	0.1	-1.5
Chemicals and related products, n.e.s.	-2.8	0.8
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	0.5	6.6
Machinery and transport equipment	-1.1	3.2
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	-2.8	7.8
Commodities and transactions, n.e.s.	-4.3	-3.8

IMPORT PRICE INDEX: all groups, Quarterly % change

EXPORT PRICE INDEX: all groups, Quarterly % change

JUNE KEY POINTS


IMPORT PRICE INDEX

• The Import Price Index fell 3.0% in the June quarter 2014. Through the year to the June quarter 2014, the Import Price Index rose 5.7%.

EXPORT PRICE INDEX

• The Export Price Index fell 7.9% in the June quarter 2014. Through the year to the June quarter 2014, the Export Price Index fell 1.9%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
September 2014	30 October 2014
December 2014	29 January 2015
March 2015	30 April 2015
June 2015	30 July 2015

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Large scale innovation is planned as part of the ABS forward work plan. This innovation includes major upgrades to existing systems, processes and methodologies.

The ABS has deferred selected commitments from the Information paper: Outcome of the Review of the Producer and International Trade Price Indexes, 2012 (cat. no. 6427.0.55.004) pending upgrades to existing systems. Appendix 1 provides a full list of PPI commitments from the paper.

In the Information Paper: Outcome of the Review of the Producer and International Trade Price Indexes, 2012 (cat. no. 6427.0.55.004) the ABS undertook to release an updated Producer and International Trade Price Indexes: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 6429.0) publication. This will be released on August 20, 2014.


REVISIONS TO MARCH QUARTER 2014 EXPORT PRICE INDEX

This issue of International Trade Price Indexes, Australia (cat. no. 6457.0) includes revisions to the Export Price Index (EPI) for the March quarter 2014. These revisions incorporate information not available at the time of compiling the March quarter 2014 EPI. The EPI has been revised from 3.6% to 2.8% in the March quarter 2014. The affected series are annotated in this publication and in the time series spreadsheets and data cubes.


CHANGES IN FUTURE ISSUES

From the December quarter 2014 the International Trade Price Indexes, Australia (cat. no. 6457.0) will be available from the ABS website in electronic format only. The September quarter 2014 release will be the final issue that contains a PDF version of the publication. There will be no change to the suite of International Trade Price Indexes published.


ROUNDING

Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components are due to rounding.


DATA REFERENCES

Data referenced in the Key Points and Commentary are available from the tables shown in this publication, or in the corresponding tables of this publication on the ABS website <https://www.abs.gov.au>.


INQUIRIES

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