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U.S. import price indexes for selected categories of goods 2000=100, unless otherwise noted
Category SITC
Rev.3		 Relative
import-
ance
Nov. 2005(1)		 Months
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Food and live animals

0

 3.550                        

1977

     - - - - - - - - 82.9 - - 80.1

1978

     - - 75.3 - - 75.3 - - 75.8 - - 77.6

1979

     - - 76.6 - - 83.6 - - 85.1 - - 88.2

1980

     - - 88.5 - - 86.6 - - 87.4 - - 88.7

1981

     - - 86.7 - - 81.1 - - 81.9 - - 80.0

1982

     - - 80.0 - - 75.9 - - 78.0 - - 80.2

1983

     - - 81.1 - - 81.2 - - 82.2 - - 83.2

1984

     - - 85.0 - - 85.8 - - 84.6 - - 81.3

1985

     - - 81.7 - - 81.4 - - 79.1 - - 87.1

1986

     - - 93.6 - - 88.4 - - 92.2 - - 89.9

1987

     - - 86.6 - - 89.2 - - 89.8 - - 92.6

1988

     - - 93.9 - - 93.8 - - 92.8 - - 94.1

1989

     - - 94.0 - - 91.7 - - 87.4 - - 89.1

1990

     - - 91.9 - - 92.1 - - 93.9 - - 95.7

1991

     - - 95.7 - - 95.6 - - 94.6 - - 95.6

1992

     - - 97.4 - - 91.4 - - 92.1 92.7 94.4 93.2

1993

     93.1 91.6 91.2 92.8 93.3 94.4 93.4 94.6 95.6 96.8 95.4 95.3

1994

     95.8 95.0 96.3 97.4 99.3 101.8 107.1 110.1 110.9 112.6 110.5 110.8

1995

     112.2 109.1 112.6 108.3 110.0 108.6 109.7 109.2 106.7 105.1 105.2 104.7

1996

     100.3 104.7 103.2 107.5 107.3 102.7 102.0 101.8 104.8 105.6 104.6 102.6

1997

     102.6 105.4 110.4 107.9 110.7 112.5 108.9 109.4 109.8 108.9 107.8 108.0

1998

     107.6 105.8 106.1 107.8 105.8 106.3 105.6 101.8 103.5 105.2 103.9 103.2

1999

     104.4 101.0 101.1 102.5 102.9 101.2 100.4 99.8 99.3 98.7 100.2 102.7

2000

     101.7 101.5 101.0 101.9 100.1 99.0 99.2 99.4 99.0 99.2 97.8 100.2

2001

     100.6 99.0 100.9 98.4 97.3 96.0 95.1 94.9 95.1 94.7 95.1 94.8

2002

     95.8 94.3 96.4 97.0 96.4 94.5 96.3 96.6 98.8 97.6 97.6 98.8

2003

     100.4 100.0 101.2 101.6 99.8 99.4 100.2 99.5 100.0 100.3 100.0 101.0

2004

     102.2 104.7 105.4 106.4 106.1 106.9 107.4 107.4 109.2 111.1 111.0 111.9

2005

     110.9 112.6 117.5 116.4 116.0 113.9 113.3 113.9 113.5 114.8 115.4 117.4

Meat and meat preparations

01

 0.408                        

1977

     - - - - - 70.0 - - 69.8 - - 73.6

1978

     - - 83.8 - - 88.3 - - 88.9 - - 102.0

1979

     - - 113.6 - - 111.9 - - 108.3 - - 117.8

1980

     - - 109.7 - - 97.5 - - 112.8 - - 115.6

1981

     - - 103.7 - - 99.6 - - 101.3 - - 100.7

1982

     - - 98.9 - - 99.1 - - 99.5 - - 100.3

1983

     - - 99.3 - - 96.5 - - 97.5 - - 93.8

1984

     - - 93.3 - - 93.6 - - 94.7 - - 92.6

1985

     - - 89.3 - - 81.5 - - 83.6 - - 92.6

1986

     - - 85.6 - - 83.2 - - 90.5 - - 94.7

1987

     - - 91.1 - - 93.7 - - 99.2 - - 98.4

1988

     - - 96.7 - - 92.8 - - 96.5 - - 94.2

1989

     - - 96.5 - - 95.1 - - 107.6 - - 116.3

1990

     - - 113.1 - - 118.4 - - 121.7 - - 120.5

1991

     - - 120.9 - - 125.0 - - 119.5 - - 115.9

1992

     - - 114.8 - - 112.3 - - 111.5 113.5 111.1 109.5

1993

     107.9 107.1 113.4 113.2 114.9 117.6 118.8 121.1 115.9 115.9 113.6 111.3

1994

     109.9 111.1 114.3 115.4 110.8 107.8 106.5 107.4 108.8 107.7 107.6 108.5

1995

     106.9 106.2 104.9 102.6 100.8 100.8 101.8 103.3 97.3 98.1 98.9 99.6

1996

     97.8 95.5 93.7 93.3 93.0 92.0 92.6 102.0 102.6 104.4 104.1 100.7

1997

     99.4 99.6 105.3 106.5 105.3 103.6 103.7 106.0 105.7 104.5 104.5 106.0

1998

     103.0 103.0 103.0 103.5 103.1 100.0 99.4 99.5 98.9 97.2 96.4 93.4

1999

     93.5 93.8 95.7 96.1 95.4 96.1 95.9 98.4 101.2 100.1 99.4 100.1

2000

     99.5 100.0 100.9 102.0 101.9 100.8 99.9 100.7 100.7 97.2 97.4 99.1

2001

     97.2 97.8 102.2 104.4 106.3 106.2 109.3 108.9 113.5 114.8 118.0 109.8

2002

     105.5 107.4 109.8 110.1 105.4 104.0 105.9 105.4 103.4 102.0 101.2 106.8

2003

     101.7 107.4 108.5 108.8 110.3 102.9 106.6 108.2 112.8 115.2 117.2 120.4

2004

     117.7 118.0 120.4 121.7 124.4 128.9 133.7 134.2 134.9 134.2 131.8 133.0

2005

     134.5 134.8 135.9 136.5 138.6 138.5 139.6 139.5 140.8 140.5 141.2 140.4

Fish, crustaceans, aquatic invertebrates and preparations thereof

03

 0.880                        

1977

     - - - - - 42.7 - - 42.5 - - 42.5

1978

     - - 43.2 - - 43.4 - - 44.9 - - 48.0

1979

     - - 50.2 - - 52.0 - - 51.8 - - 53.0

1980

     - - 53.5 - - 53.1 - - 54.1 - - 56.3

1981

     - - 57.4 - - 57.5 - - 55.5 - - 56.8

1982

     - - 58.0 - - 57.9 - - 57.0 - - 57.8

1983

     - - 57.5 - - 57.1 - - 57.7 - - 58.0

1984

     - - 56.6 - - 57.3 - - 57.3 - - 57.1

1985

     - - 56.9 - - 55.4 - - 55.8 - - 56.6

1986

     - - 60.1 - - 62.0 - - 64.1 - - 66.9

1987

     - - 68.4 - - 70.8 - - 73.3 - - 73.6

1988

     - - 74.4 - - 72.6 - - 70.7 - - 71.2

1989

     - - 71.3 - - 68.9 - - 68.3 - - 68.6

1990

     - - 70.7 - - 70.9 - - 74.5 - - 77.1

1991

     - - 79.7 - - 78.9 - - 78.2 - - 78.3

1992

     - - 79.1 - - 79.1 - - 80.3 79.9 79.4 78.3

1993

     78.5 78.3 78.9 79.7 78.8 79.1 78.4 79.0 79.9 83.0 83.5 83.6

1994

     84.1 84.9 85.5 87.8 89.4 88.9 89.4 90.6 90.6 92.4 92.7 93.8

1995

     92.1 92.1 93.6 93.2 92.6 92.5 92.8 91.4 89.2 89.1 87.3 86.5

1996

     85.9 86.5 86.8 87.4 87.6 88.8 87.0 87.9 88.3 88.3 88.4 89.4

1997

     89.6 91.1 90.7 91.3 92.9 94.3 95.1 95.2 95.2 97.8 97.7 96.1

1998

     95.9 96.8 97.4 97.8 97.6 99.6 96.6 94.6 94.4 94.9 93.1 91.2

1999

     91.8 93.4 94.0 96.5 96.5 94.9 94.9 94.5 93.9 95.6 97.8 97.2

2000

     97.2 98.2 98.3 101.1 99.8 99.3 100.7 103.4 102.5 100.7 99.5 99.3

2001

     97.7 96.2 93.0 91.2 90.7 90.0 87.0 86.8 86.3 84.6 82.8 82.9

2002

     82.3 82.0 80.4 80.1 80.0 79.8 81.9 83.0 84.9 81.4 82.0 82.5

2003

     81.1 82.0 81.4 84.3 83.4 81.3 83.5 82.3 82.2 79.8 79.3 79.2

2004

     78.2 80.0 83.3 85.1 84.1 84.1 86.1 86.9 86.0 85.6 84.7 85.0

2005

     86.0 87.0 88.5 88.3 87.8 87.8 90.0 90.9 91.4 92.4 91.1 91.7

Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen

034

 0.302                        

1977

     - - 40.6 - - 41.1 - - 42.2 - - 42.1

1978

     - - 42.7 - - 42.7 - - 43.1 - - 43.0

1979

     - - 43.8 - - 44.7 - - 46.0 - - 47.5

1980

     - - 50.0 - - 52.4 - - 51.9 - - 55.7

1981

     - - 57.0 - - 56.5 - - 54.3 - - 54.5

1982

     - - 54.4 - - 52.6 - - 50.4 - - 51.0

1983

     - - 51.5 - - 49.8 - - 49.3 - - 50.0

1984

     - - 50.0 - - 49.5 - - 50.6 - - 50.9

1985

     - - 51.2 - - 49.8 - - 50.4 - - 52.4

1986

     - - 56.1 - - 55.9 - - 59.3 - - 62.8

1987

     - - 66.3 - - 68.2 - - 72.4 - - 73.6

1988

     - - 73.6 - - 69.4 - - 65.9 - - 66.7

1989

     - - 67.5 - - 66.5 - - 66.2 - - 68.2

1990

     - - 70.0 - - 71.7 - - 77.4 - - 81.4

1991

     - - 82.7 - - 81.9 - - 81.5 - - 82.3

1992

     - - 81.7 - - 82.7 - - 82.9 - - 83.6

1993

     - - 83.4 - - 81.3 - - 80.0 - - 79.8

1994

     80.5 80.6 81.6 81.8 82.8 82.0 81.1 84.0 82.7 85.2 86.0 86.3

1995

     84.1 84.8 88.0 86.7 87.5 87.0 87.6 86.9 85.8 85.5 84.5 84.4

1996

     82.9 83.2 83.6 84.4 85.0 85.2 85.6 85.5 85.9 85.2 85.6 85.4

1997

     84.7 87.2 86.9 87.8 88.3 87.7 89.5 89.9 89.8 88.6 89.6 88.5

1998

     89.6 90.6 89.7 91.0 93.0 99.0 95.7 96.3 96.7 98.7 104.6 103.1

1999

     102.5 100.6 102.1 104.7 100.1 99.0 101.5 100.8 101.5 101.5 100.7 100.2

2000

     100.1 99.8 95.5 98.3 98.7 98.9 100.3 102.1 102.1 99.4 103.4 101.4

2001

     97.4 97.0 97.0 96.1 95.6 96.3 95.4 94.7 93.5 94.6 94.3 92.0

2002

     88.2 87.5 87.3 88.8 86.9 87.2 98.0 98.6 98.6 90.9 91.3 90.0

2003

     88.3 89.0 88.3 92.6 92.9 93.1 100.5 94.9 93.6 91.3 90.8 90.7

2004

     89.9 89.6 90.2 91.0 91.5 93.0 96.0 97.6 96.8 95.5 91.3 91.8

2005

     93.6 95.4 95.8 100.5 100.9 102.6 106.4 107.4 110.4 111.7 111.8 111.2

Crustaceans, aquatic invert. fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted

036

 0.391                        

1977

     - - 39.3 - - 39.0 - - 37.7 - - 38.0

1978

     - - 38.7 - - 39.2 - - 41.7 - - 47.9

1979

     - - 52.0 - - 54.3 - - 52.8 - - 53.6

1980

     - - 51.8 - - 48.0 - - 50.0 - - 50.8

1981

     - - 51.7 - - 52.5 - - 50.4 - - 52.7

1982

     - - 55.9 - - 58.1 - - 58.6 - - 60.2

1983

     - - 59.3 - - 60.3 - - 62.3 - - 62.3

1984

     - - 59.3 - - 61.0 - - 59.8 - - 59.0

1985

     - - 58.4 - - 56.9 - - 57.1 - - 56.3

1986

     - - 60.6 - - 64.8 - - 65.1 - - 67.0

1987

     - - 67.2 - - 70.4 - - 70.8 - - 69.0

1988

     - - 70.9 - - 70.4 - - 69.6 - - 69.6

1989

     - - 69.6 - - 65.8 - - 64.6 - - 63.0

1990

     - - 66.4 - - 65.2 - - 67.0 - - 69.0

1991

     - - 73.0 - - 71.8 - - 70.2 - - 69.7

1992

     - - 71.6 - - 70.5 - - 72.6 - - 68.2

1993

     - - 69.3 - - 71.2 - - 73.4 - - 77.3

1994

     77.5 79.1 79.8 84.1 87.3 86.9 88.9 89.0 90.3 91.4 91.8 93.0

1995

     91.7 91.5 93.1 93.7 92.3 91.9 91.7 88.9 85.3 85.3 82.4 79.5

1996

     80.2 80.8 81.1 82.4 82.8 84.5 80.8 82.2 82.2 82.8 83.2 85.2

1997

     87.1 88.4 87.7 87.9 90.5 92.0 91.5 92.1 91.9 97.7 97.2 95.4

1998

     94.9 95.6 97.3 96.8 95.0 94.6 91.7 87.5 87.1 87.4 82.1 80.2

1999

     82.6 85.9 85.6 87.8 90.9 88.0 87.1 87.4 87.1 90.6 95.2 95.5

2000

     96.0 97.2 100.2 103.1 101.5 100.9 100.5 103.6 102.0 101.0 96.7 97.1

2001

     96.0 93.9 88.5 85.8 85.8 83.6 79.1 79.7 79.3 75.7 71.9 73.3

2002

     74.2 72.8 70.6 69.2 71.3 70.0 68.6 68.8 72.3 72.0 72.1 72.8

2003

     71.5 73.6 72.8 75.3 74.3 69.9 69.7 70.8 70.7 67.1 66.0 65.6

2004

     64.8 68.4 73.7 75.5 72.9 71.8 72.9 73.2 71.4 71.6 72.5 72.9

2005

     74.4 75.7 78.0 74.8 73.5 72.7 74.7 75.8 75.2 76.2 73.7 74.2

Vegetables, fruit and nuts, fresh or dried

05

 0.865                        

1976

     - - - - - 43.3 - - 47.2 - - 48.2

1977

     - - 62.6 - - 54.6 - - 55.7 - - 50.2

1978

     - - 46.8 - - 49.1 - - 49.4 - - 49.5

1979

     - - 48.2 - - 50.3 - - 50.7 - - 53.5

1980

     - - 51.9 - - 54.7 - - 55.0 - - 57.1

1981

     - - 70.1 - - 69.1 - - 69.0 - - 68.4

1982

     - - 68.8 - - 61.1 - - 63.2 - - 71.0

1983

     - - 73.0 - - 72.1 - - 72.3 - - 68.3

1984

     - - 74.3 - - 74.2 - - 74.0 - - 64.0

1985

     - - 68.0 - - 71.1 - - 63.6 - - 73.6

1986

     - - 67.4 - - 69.1 - - 73.3 - - 72.0

1987

     - - 70.4 - - 76.1 - - 76.0 - - 80.2

1988

     - - 79.7 - - 83.1 - - 85.4 - - 88.2

1989

     - - 85.3 - - 85.1 - - 82.3 - - 88.5

1990

     - - 90.7 - - 87.0 - - 83.1 - - 90.6

1991

     - - 88.3 - - 91.4 - - 91.9 - - 95.6

1992

     - - 107.7 - - 89.9 - - 89.6 91.0 96.2 91.7

1993

     92.3 89.8 85.4 93.0 94.0 96.6 91.3 92.1 93.6 93.0 91.1 89.3

1994

     91.5 86.6 88.0 86.5 89.6 90.1 86.3 87.7 88.0 87.3 88.4 99.0

1995

     105.7 96.6 100.5 91.5 98.0 97.6 107.4 101.2 101.0 100.6 100.4 106.4

1996

     93.1 105.5 102.4 114.6 111.2 98.8 100.2 98.9 107.1 110.4 107.4 102.4

1997

     102.2 104.7 111.8 102.1 101.6 102.2 101.8 103.8 104.0 103.7 104.4 103.1

1998

     103.4 94.3 96.2 101.4 99.6 104.0 112.3 98.7 107.3 114.7 110.2 111.2

1999

     113.4 102.7 102.3 105.5 108.7 103.7 104.1 103.1 102.2 97.0 97.8 104.2

2000