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NAME OF COLLECTION
Import Price Index

Contact
Manager
Import Price Index
Producer Price Indexes Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Locked Bag 10
BELCONNEN ACT 2616

Telephone: Canberra 02 6252 6519
Facsimile: Canberra 02 6252 7060
Email: client.services@abs.gov.au
Web site: <www.abs.gov.au>

Purpose
To produce index numbers which measure changes in the prices of imports of merchandise landed in Australia.

Description
The Import Price Index numbers for each quarter relate to prices of those imports of merchandise that physically landed in Australia during that quarter.

The commodities directly or indirectly represented in the Import Price Index (the index items) were selected on the basis of their import values during 1999-2000. They constituted approximately 95% of the total value of imports of merchandise into Australia during those years. The remaining imports are not represented because of the inherent difficulties in pricing the items to a constant quality. The items which are not represented include live animals (not for food) and military equipment.

Prices of individual shipments are obtained from importers of the selected items, and relate to the quarter in which the goods arrive in Australia. Imports are priced on a 'free on board' country of origin basis. Freight and insurance charges involved in shipping the goods from foreign to Australian ports are therefore excluded from the prices used in the index, as are Australian import duties.

Main data detail
Some of the data items available are:

• Import Price Index by selected Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) industry of origin Divisions (including ANZSIC Division B Mining);
• contribution of Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) Sections (including SITC Section 3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and other related materials) to the All Groups Import Price Index;
• contribution of SITC Divisions (including SITC Division 33 Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials) to the All Groups Import Price Index;
• Import Price Index by SITC Section;
• Import Price Index by selected SITC Divisions (including SITC Division 33 Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials); and
• Import Price Index by selected Combined Australian Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature (ATSN) Sections (including ATSN Section 5 Mineral Products).

Frequency of data availability
Quarterly.

Reference period
Quarters ended 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.

Historical data
Data are available from 1981-82.

Products and services
Publication

• International Trade Price Indexes, Australia (cat. no. 6457.0)

• Special data services may be available on request.

	June 1998	June 1999	June 2000	June 2001	June 2002
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	148.2	127.7	120.2	123.3	120.7
Mining	102.6	119.5	201.0	224.4	198.5
Manufacturing	117.0	113.6	122.0	133.4	123.9