Domestic output prices grew by 6.7% on average, with prices in manufacturing, representing a weight of six-tenths, rising by 5.7%. Prices in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply), with a weight of more than one-third, grew by 9.2% compared to a year earlier.
Of the end-use groups of industryʼs producing branches, prices grew by 8.8% year-on-year in energy and intermediate producing, by 4.2% in capital goods producing, and by 2.1% in consumer goods producing branches.
Industrial export prices rose by 4.3% compared to November 2017. Within export prices, prices rose by 3.7% in manufacturing (representing a weight of 96.4%), and by 22% in the energy industry (with a weight of 3.4%), due to a marked increase in prices on the international electricity market.
In a month-on-month comparison, industrial producer prices were down 0.2% from October, as domestic prices slipped 0.4% and export prices fell 0.2%.
In the first 11 months of 2018, domestic output prices grew by 6.0%, while export prices rose 5.3%, meaning that industrial producer prices as a whole were up 5.5% compared to the corresponding 11-month period of 2017.
Industrial producer prices for December 2018, and for the full year of 2018, will be published on January 31.
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