Table 2 U.S. Export Price Indexes, by End Use

Table 2. U.S. export price indexes and percent changes for selected categories of goods: April 2007 to April 2008 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Description	End Use	Relative import- ance Mar. 2008(1)	Index		Percent change
			Mar. 2008	Apr. 2008	Annual	Monthly
			Mar. 2008	Apr. 2008	Apr. 2007 to Apr. 2008	Dec. 2007 to Jan. 2008	Jan. 2008 to Feb. 2008	Feb. 2008 to Mar. 2008	Mar. 2008 to Apr. 2008
All commodities		100.000	123.7	124.1	7.7	1.2	1.0	1.5	0.3
Agricultural commodities		10.194	193.2	189.0	32.3	4.8	4.5	4.2	-2.2
Nonagricultural commodities		89.806	118.8	119.5	5.6	0.8	0.6	1.3	0.6

Foods, feeds, & beverages	0	9.296	195.7	191.2	31.6	5.5	4.5	3.8	-2.3

Agricultural foods, feeds & beverages, excluding distilled beverages	00	8.600	201.3	196.4	33.8	5.6	4.8	3.9	-2.4

Nonagricultural foods (fish, distilled beverages)	01	0.696	148.2	146.3	9.3	4.3	1.9	2.4	-1.3

Industrial supplies & materials	1	30.775	165.5	167.5	13.8	1.9	1.3	4.0	1.2
Industrial supplies & materials, durable		11.990	172.6	174.2	8.2	0.4	3.5	4.3	0.9
Industrial supplies & materials, nondurable		18.786	162.0	164.3	17.4	2.9	-0.1	3.7	1.4

Agricultural industrial supplies & materials	10	1.594	159.3	158.0	24.5	0.9	3.2	5.8	-0.8

Nonagricultural industrial supplies & materials		29.181	166.0	168.2	13.2	2.0	1.2	3.8	1.3

Fuels & lubricants	11	4.992	249.2	256.8	29.3	4.2	-2.8	10.5	3.0

Nonagricultural supplies & materials excluding fuels & building materials	12	23.180	158.2	159.8	10.7	1.6	2.1	2.7	1.0

Selected building materials	13	1.009	114.1	114.0	1.0	-0.4	0.4	0.3	-0.1

Capital goods	2	38.628	101.2	101.5	2.2	0.3	0.4	-0.1	0.3

Electrical generating equipment	20	3.661	108.2	108.2	1.6	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.0

Nonelectrical machinery	21	27.328	93.7	94.0	1.4	0.1	0.2	-0.2	0.3

Transportation equipment excluding motor vehicles (Dec. 2001=100)	22	7.639	128.1	128.7	5.7	1.5	0.6	0.3	0.5

Automotive vehicles, parts & engines	3	9.542	107.2	107.6	1.5	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.4

Consumer goods, excluding automotives	4	11.759	107.6	107.8	2.3	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.2

Nondurables, manufactured	40	5.496	108.5	109.4	3.5	-0.1	0.1	0.3	0.8

Durables, manufactured	41	5.266	105.3	104.8	0.9	0.0	0.3	-0.2	-0.5
Footnotes (1) Relative importance figures are based on 2006 trade values.
NOTES: Data may be revised in each of the three months after original publication. Dash = Not available

Table 2 U.S. Export Price Indexes, by End Use

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