U.S. Import Price Indexes for Selected Categories of Goods by Harmonized System

Table 5. U.S. import price indexes for selected categories of goods 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Category	Harmo- nized system	Relative import- ance Mar. 2008(1)	Months
Category	Harmo- nized system	Relative import- ance Mar. 2008(1)	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
Live animals; animal products	I	1.045
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	89.6
1993			89.3	88.6	91.3	91.1	91.8	92.6	92.1	92.7	91.7	92.2	91.8	91.4
1994			91.5	92.2	93.9	95.3	94.8	93.0	92.7	94.4	94.6	95.2	95.6	96.3
1995			94.9	95.2	96.1	94.8	94.0	93.6	93.1	92.7	90.6	91.0	90.9	89.9
1996			88.8	88.2	87.8	88.6	87.8	87.7	87.1	88.3	89.0	89.7	90.0	90.4
1997			89.9	91.4	92.7	93.2	95.5	94.2	95.1	95.8	95.9	97.3	97.3	95.5
1998			95.2	95.7	96.4	97.0	97.0	96.2	94.2	92.2	92.5	92.8	92.4	90.7
1999			91.5	92.1	93.3	94.7	94.5	93.2	94.3	94.3	95.0	96.5	98.3	98.7
2000			98.6	99.2	99.6	101.9	101.3	99.9	99.7	101.0	100.4	99.0	99.2	100.1
2001			99.6	99.0	98.3	97.4	96.5	95.8	94.5	94.5	94.2	93.2	92.0	90.2
2002			90.0	90.8	90.7	90.6	89.6	88.2	88.6	89.3	90.8	90.2	90.5	92.8
2003			91.4	94.3	95.5	97.3	97.3	95.1	97.0	96.0	95.9	96.8	94.8	95.9
2004			95.0	98.7	102.8	104.9	106.7	107.8	112.3	112.8	110.3	112.1	109.3	112.4
2005			110.5	113.3	114.0	113.4	113.8	112.7	114.7	115.3	115.6	116.7	115.4	115.3
2006			114.4	115.5	117.0	115.6	117.9	118.2	120.1	120.6	121.1	120.8	119.8	119.0
2007			120.0	122.0	122.5	123.4	126.4	127.4	128.3	128.9	128.3	126.2	124.3	126.0
2008			125.7	128.6	130.0	131.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Meat and edible meat offal	02	0.239
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	113.5
1993			111.9	109.6	119.4	120.1	122.7	126.3	126.7	129.6	122.0	122.8	120.3	117.5
1994			115.9	115.9	120.4	120.8	113.9	109.9	107.0	109.0	110.3	108.0	107.6	108.1
1995			106.6	105.1	103.5	99.2	96.7	96.4	95.4	96.5	95.7	97.3	101.5	101.5
1996			99.0	95.1	92.5	92.1	89.1	87.4	88.6	91.1	93.1	94.8	95.0	93.8
1997			92.5	92.8	98.5	99.6	97.9	95.8	97.2	99.6	101.0	99.8	100.1	100.2
1998			97.3	97.1	97.2	98.9	99.0	95.9	95.3	95.3	95.7	93.9	95.0	92.3
1999			92.2	92.3	95.5	96.1	95.0	95.9	96.3	99.4	100.7	99.9	99.1	99.8
2000			99.7	100.0	100.4	101.3	101.3	100.5	99.7	99.8	101.2	97.7	98.3	100.2
2001			98.0	99.0	104.3	105.9	108.6	107.3	111.4	110.2	113.9	114.9	118.7	109.5
2002			106.2	108.1	110.0	110.6	105.9	104.1	106.3	105.2	103.2	102.0	101.3	107.5
2003			101.8	107.9	109.7	110.1	112.5	104.1	107.9	109.4	114.0	116.2	118.3	121.3
2004			119.1	119.4	122.5	122.6	125.5	130.8	137.2	137.6	138.1	136.7	134.7	135.6
2005			136.4	136.4	137.4	137.0	139.7	138.7	139.6	139.0	139.3	138.7	139.4	138.6
2006			137.2	139.1	138.0	137.7	138.1	137.2	138.6	140.5	140.4	142.4	143.2	141.6
2007			141.6	142.3	142.2	143.4	145.9	146.8	147.9	148.4	148.5	150.1	148.0	147.3
2008			147.9	149.8	152.3	150.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates	03	0.535
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	73.8
1993			74.1	73.7	74.4	74.6	74.3	74.6	73.5	73.9	75.2	76.2	77.2	77.4
1994			77.8	78.7	79.5	81.7	84.1	83.2	83.7	85.3	85.4	87.2	87.7	88.3
1995			86.5	86.9	89.3	89.2	88.9	88.6	88.9	87.5	84.6	84.6	82.8	81.2
1996			81.0	81.7	82.0	82.8	82.9	84.2	82.4	83.1	83.3	83.3	83.8	84.7
1997			85.7	87.2	86.9	87.3	89.3	89.9	90.4	90.9	90.6	93.3	93.9	92.0
1998			92.6	93.3	93.3	92.7	93.2	94.3	92.3	90.4	90.7	91.5	89.4	88.2
1999			89.4	90.5	91.2	93.3	94.0	91.8	93.2	92.8	93.2	95.1	98.0	97.8
2000			97.7	98.6	98.4	100.8	100.5	100.2	100.4	103.0	102.0	100.3	99.2	98.8
2001			96.9	95.5	92.5	90.7	90.4	89.5	86.9	86.9	86.2	84.8	82.8	82.6
2002			82.8	81.7	80.2	80.1	80.4	79.8	79.9	80.5	82.6	82.4	82.8	82.6
2003			81.5	82.9	82.0	84.3	83.8	81.9	84.4	82.6	82.3	79.8	79.1	78.8
2004			77.9	80.0	83.5	85.0	83.4	83.4	85.4	86.3	84.6	84.3	83.3	83.7
2005			85.4	87.0	88.6	88.5	88.1	88.3	91.0	92.3	92.6	93.7	92.2	92.2
2006			91.3	93.3	95.3	94.6	95.7	96.6	97.9	98.6	99.0	98.1	96.2	95.6
2007			98.0	99.6	100.8	100.4	100.6	100.2	101.4	101.4	101.4	99.8	98.6	99.1
2008			100.0	100.2	103.7	106.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Crustaceans, live, fresh, chilled, etc; in shell or not; cooked or uncooked	0306	0.265
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	67.9
1993			-	-	69.1	-	-	70.8	-	-	73.1	-	-	76.5
1994			76.9	78.6	79.7	84.2	87.3	87.1	89.2	89.3	90.8	91.9	92.4	93.5
1995			92.1	91.9	93.6	94.2	92.5	92.0	91.7	88.5	85.1	84.9	82.2	79.0
1996			79.2	79.7	80.1	81.4	81.9	83.8	79.9	81.3	81.7	82.3	82.4	84.7
1997			87.1	88.5	87.6	87.8	90.5	91.9	91.3	92.3	92.0	98.3	97.8	95.8
1998			95.2	96.0	98.1	97.5	96.0	95.4	92.2	87.8	86.1	85.8	80.1	78.2
1999			80.7	84.3	83.9	86.3	89.7	86.6	86.3	86.7	86.4	90.4	94.8	95.1
2000			95.4	96.8	99.9	103.2	101.5	101.0	100.5	104.0	102.1	101.1	97.0	97.5
2001			96.8	94.9	89.0	86.1	86.1	83.8	79.0	79.6	79.3	75.4	71.3	72.8
2002			73.7	73.5	70.7	68.9	71.2	69.8	68.3	69.3	73.1	72.7	72.7	73.5
2003			71.8	73.6	72.6	74.4	73.4	69.7	69.1	69.9	69.6	66.1	64.8	64.3
2004			63.4	67.1	72.9	75.0	72.1	70.9	71.9	72.2	70.1	70.1	70.8	71.3
2005			72.5	73.7	75.6	72.1	70.2	69.3	70.6	71.5	70.7	72.0	69.6	70.3
2006			69.6	71.5	72.8	71.4	70.4	70.7	72.0	72.3	71.9	70.7	70.1	70.3
2007			72.7	74.6	74.8	74.0	73.8	73.6	74.9	76.0	76.5	76.0	75.1	74.9
2008			78.2	78.0	82.0	82.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Vegetable products	II	1.278
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	84.9
1993			85.4	83.7	80.1	83.3	83.7	83.5	81.5	84.5	87.0	87.8	85.5	86.9
1994			88.3	88.9	88.0	89.1	96.1	102.6	118.7	123.4	125.9	130.5	123.5	121.8
1995			125.4	119.6	127.2	120.1	124.9	121.6	121.8	124.3	120.0	113.7	114.4	112.2
1996			105.1	115.5	108.7	117.1	117.8	105.2	105.0	100.4	105.7	107.0	106.3	103.5
1997			104.2	114.0	117.9	110.0	115.2	115.8	111.2	113.8	114.2	112.4	111.8	111.6
1998			111.5	110.6	106.5	108.0	107.1	107.7	111.5	103.4	108.8	112.6	107.8	108.8
1999			110.6	104.5	103.6	105.1	107.7	106.1	103.9	103.3	102.7	100.8	102.1	109.5
2000			107.5	106.3	103.0	102.4	99.2	97.1	97.4	96.7	97.0	98.9	95.1	99.4
2001			99.9	98.2	102.0	96.6	97.1	94.7	92.0	91.4	91.7	94.8	95.9	95.2
2002			96.1	91.0	95.3	96.9	99.4	94.7	96.2	97.2	102.1	102.6	103.1	103.6
2003			106.2	103.4	103.9	102.8	101.7	102.7	100.2	99.9	100.4	100.4	100.9	101.9
2004			105.1	108.6	105.8	104.5	102.9	103.0	99.3	97.5	105.4	108.6	110.6	110.3
2005			109.7	117.4	125.1	120.6	123.3	116.9	110.4	109.9	109.3	111.5	112.6	119.0
2006			123.8	111.3	107.6	104.5	108.9	108.6	109.4	119.4	119.5	120.6	123.2	127.3
2007			129.5	126.5	124.3	130.9	129.5	129.3	133.7	134.5	140.1	144.5	143.0	141.5
2008			153.1	145.4	150.6	152.1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Edible vegetables, roots, and tubers	07	0.330
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	83.3
1993			85.9	79.5	72.4	99.4	97.3	110.1	-	-	104.1	102.3	96.4	88.2
1994			94.2	75.2	79.8	71.8	82.0	83.0	78.1	78.3	74.5	78.2	77.1	95.3
1995			110.3	87.9	100.6	72.5	91.4	84.6	110.1	89.0	90.7	91.7	90.0	105.9
1996			61.9	97.4	91.2	121.5	111.1	78.1	-	-	104.3	117.6	96.2	87.0
1997			82.7	92.5	117.0	91.7	92.2	-	-	-	-	113.9	121.1	120.2
1998			114.7	84.2	92.1	99.7	97.9	103.8	136.3	101.6	125.8	151.6	124.6	137.2
1999			134.7	99.0	95.9	101.0	108.6	99.0	102.0	97.1	99.4	88.9	88.2	107.7
2000			100.9	94.9	92.2	98.5	91.5	93.9	96.8	98.1	99.4	110.8	100.0	123.0
2001			126.5	115.1	135.1	107.5	97.1	96.9	98.7	94.7	99.1	107.5	116.1	101.8
2002			119.7	100.3	116.3	121.0	123.8	106.7	113.4	110.8	110.4	116.0	111.9	112.8
2003			127.0	114.4	126.5	121.0	113.6	122.7	114.6	111.4	109.9	112.3	120.7	120.2
2004			132.5	144.3	134.9	120.9	111.5	113.8	100.0	95.2	126.5	144.0	151.2	139.9
2005			122.6	124.4	177.9	161.3	163.3	136.8	132.9	141.3	136.8	149.4	149.2	167.5
2006			185.2	123.8	134.6	123.7	138.5	143.6	137.2	162.4	161.7	164.7	164.3	180.0
2007			191.3	187.8	179.0	205.1	189.3	175.3	202.9	203.2	198.6	191.5	195.5	204.1
2008			264.3	203.9	212.9	206.0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons	08	0.348
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	97.1
1993			95.7	96.1	94.0	92.8	97.4	88.0	84.5	83.1	81.5	82.8	84.7	89.5
1994			90.0	91.0	91.7	91.7	92.4	92.6	89.0	90.8	93.5	90.3	91.5	99.2
1995			102.7	96.8	94.6	96.6	96.2	99.6	102.0	104.0	100.8	99.7	98.2	102.2
1996			100.4	101.9	96.6	100.7	102.3	99.5	98.8	98.1	95.9	95.7	113.0	110.8
1997			108.1	106.1	106.4	104.0	103.4	101.3	100.2	97.4	96.9	96.2	95.7	93.1
1998			95.4	96.0	95.7	98.9	96.9	101.6	100.4	97.8	99.9	98.5	102.3	96.9
1999			100.6	101.1	103.0	105.2	108.0	106.2	106.0	107.3	104.5	103.3	103.6	106.5
2000			106.4	109.5	107.1	102.3	99.1	96.9	96.9	96.7	96.6	96.6	95.7	96.3
2001			96.1	93.6	98.8	101.5	107.8	103.1	103.4	103.9	100.8	100.8	97.8	102.5
2002			98.0	92.7	90.5	89.7	96.9	97.5	98.2	102.0	106.0	104.1	101.9	101.4
2003			100.0	99.1	97.7	97.3	95.8	96.5	96.7	98.1	98.0	98.8	97.2	98.0
2004			95.2	95.5	91.9	98.0	97.8	96.3	96.4	97.6	96.7	96.6	95.3	95.0
2005			94.1	93.0	90.6	91.0	90.2	89.7	86.7	87.3	85.4	85.7	83.9	87.8
2006			82.3	84.9	81.5	81.2	83.3	81.7	79.5	88.0	87.7	86.8	87.6	89.9
2007			88.3	82.3	82.2	85.2	88.7	90.9	87.9	89.4	101.0	108.6	102.9	93.9
2008			92.1	96.7	95.0	106.2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Coffee, tea, mate and spices	09	0.258
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	77.1
1993			77.0	72.7	70.6	64.5	64.6	66.7	70.5	80.3	85.6	89.2	82.6	85.6
1994			85.6	88.1	89.6	96.7	106.4	129.7	187.5	203.4	212.8	226.4	202.6	175.2
1995			174.0	167.4	186.0	178.1	180.4	165.9	151.6	158.7	152.3	137.6	141.1	125.7
1996			126.4	135.3	128.9	134.5	135.7	126.3	124.1	115.4	117.1	114.0	113.5	108.2
1997			113.2	125.6	143.5	140.7	155.4	167.1	146.1	146.1	149.1	138.4	134.5	138.6
1998			140.2	139.9	140.1	140.5	134.8	126.8	115.9	123.0	119.1	114.4	116.5	115.6
1999			118.8	113.4	112.1	111.5	108.5	113.1	104.9	104.4	103.5	104.8	114.8	125.0
2000			117.8	112.4	106.6	106.4	104.1	102.9	96.5	94.4	94.0	92.0	87.3	85.8
2001			82.8	82.2	81.9	82.7	81.8	79.3	75.1	71.8	73.2	70.0	69.7	69.5
2002			68.2	68.7	76.3	81.2	71.4	73.7	69.8	67.2	73.7	74.1	84.6	85.6
2003			86.2	86.7	79.5	80.9	83.5	77.9	80.6	83.0	87.0	84.0	80.8	81.8
2004			88.2	90.7	90.9	89.7	88.6	95.6	87.6	86.9	91.7	91.2	95.0	102.9
2005			107.1	114.3	126.1	122.8	121.4	126.4	113.8	110.9	109.2	108.2	117.0	115.2
2006			128.1	125.9	121.2	118.1	119.0	113.4	116.9	125.3	127.4	130.5	135.7	137.3
2007			139.1	137.8	135.1	135.4	135.2	142.3	142.7	144.4	146.7	151.4	149.6	152.5
2008			157.8	157.6	171.2	162.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Coffee, roasted or unroasted, decaf; coffee husks and skins (Dec. 2007=100)	0901	0.204
2007			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100.0
2008			102.6	102.4	113.8	106.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Prepared foodstuffs, beverages, and tobacco	IV	2.110
1992			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	96.2
1993			96.1	94.9	93.9	93.9	93.9	94.5	95.2	96.3	96.8	98.4	97.9	98.0
1994			97.2	97.1	97.4	98.6	98.7	99.6	99.7	100.7	100.4	100.5	101.1	102.0
1995			102.7	102.9	103.4	103.0	103.3	104.3	104.5	105.9	105.3	105.2	106.2	105.7
1996			105.9	106.3	106.6	107.6	108.7	108.5	107.7	107.5	108.5	107.9	107.2	106.5
1997			106.3	106.0	105.2	105.8	105.8	106.2	106.6	106.4	106.1	106.4	106.3	106.3
1998			105.6	105.4	105.1	105.4	105.6	106.2	105.0	104.8	105.0	104.6	104.2	104.7
1999			105.2	104.9	104.9	104.5	104.5	103.3	103.0	102.7	101.9	101.0	100.9	99.8
2000			99.6	99.3	99.6	100.2	100.3	100.0	100.4	100.6	100.4	100.2	99.7	99.7
2001			100.5	100.9	100.8	100.8	100.7	100.4	99.8	99.9	100.3	100.2	100.4	101.1
2002			101.4	102.2	100.8	101.0	101.6	101.8	102.7	104.0	106.1	106.1	105.0	105.7
2003			107.0	107.9	107.4	107.5	105.8	105.4	106.1	105.8	106.0	105.8	105.7	106.4
2004			107.0	107.1	107.4	108.8	108.9	108.9	109.8	110.5	111.1	111.2	111.6	112.1
2005			113.0	113.0	113.3	114.3	113.9	114.0	114.5	114.6	115.0	114.7	115.1	115.6
2006			116.8	117.8	118.4	119.0	119.1	119.8	119.6	119.0	119.1	119.1	119.5	119.9
2007			121.4	122.0	122.6	122.8	123.5	124.3	125.0	125.4	126.0	126.7	127.5	128.5
2008			132.4	133.1	135.2	135.7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Edible preps of meat, of fish, or of aquatic invertebrates (Dec. 2004=100)	16	0.193
2004			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100.0
2005			99.5	99.0	100.1	102.3	102.8	103.8	104.4	105.1	106.4	106.9	106.8	108.7
2006			110.4	110.8	109.2	108.4	109.5	109.7	109.3	108.6	108.1	108.4	108.8	108.5
2007			109.5	110.3	108.3	107.3	108.5	112.1	113.8	115.8	117.6	120.1	120.6	120.9
2008			123.3	124.4	126.3	123.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; bakers' wares (Dec. 2007=100)	19	0.171
2007			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100.0
2008			100.7	102.3	105.1	107.0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts, or other

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