SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

	Jun Qtr 14 to Sep Qtr 14	Sep Qtr 13 to Sep Qtr 14
	% change	% change
Import Price Index all groups	-0.8	-1.1
Food and live animals	1.9	6.7
Beverages and tobacco	-1.9	1.9
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	3.4	6.1
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	-3.7	-1.9
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	2.6	-4.5
Chemicals and related products, n.e.s.	-0.6	-0.5
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	-1.2	-3.7
Machinery and transport equipment	0.4	-0.8
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	-0.9	-1.5
Commodities and transactions, n.e.s.	-4.0	-8.8
Export Price Index all groups	-3.9	-9.5
Food and live animals	2.1	6.1
Beverages and tobacco	-2.4	-0.6
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	-9.8	-21.6
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	-2.6	-6.8
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	-15.9	-18.4
Chemicals and related products, n.e.s.	0.7	-0.2
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	5.0	8.1
Machinery and transport equipment	0.7	1.6
Miscellaneous manufactured articles	-3.0	-1.4
Commodities and transactions, n.e.s.	-2.2	-7.9

IMPORT PRICE INDEX: all groups, Quarterly % change

EXPORT PRICE INDEX: all groups, Quarterly % change

SEPTEMBER KEY POINTS


IMPORT PRICE INDEX

• The Import Price Index fell 0.8% in the September quarter 2014. Through the year to the September quarter 2014, the Import Price Index fell 1.1%.

EXPORT PRICE INDEX

• The Export Price Index fell 3.9% in the September quarter 2014. Through the year to the September quarter 2014, the Export Price Index fell 9.5%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

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

CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

Both the Import Price Index and the Export Price Index data have been reweighted for the September quarter 2014. This is in line with the ABS policy of reweighting these indexes annually for the September quarter, as explained in paragraphs 8-10 of the Explanatory Notes. The new weighting patterns are provided in the Appendix of this issue. As a consequence of the annual reweighting, the points contribution data for the June quarter 2014 shown in Tables 2, 8 and 17 differ from that published in the previous issue of this publication.


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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