KSH attributed the increase of 0.3% month-on-month to “an aggregate effect of domestic and export price changes.”

Pharmaceutical products/preparations saw the largest price increase over May at 4.0%. In manufacturing branches, the jump was 0.3% for June, with coke/refined petroleum products (1.2%) and chemical products and related machinery (1.1%) seeing the highest increases within this sector.

Interestingly, prices in the pharmaceutical industry changed at both extremes of the spectrum: In the domestic market, manufacture of such product was down a big 1.8% – highest within the entire home market – while export sales prices on this manufacture was up 5.2%, also a high. KSH also reported that the trend in falling price for industry export of utility-related goods such as electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply continued, with an across-the-board fall of 0.7%.

In domestic sales to end-use groups, prices increased month-on-month by 0.4% in energy producer branches, 0.2% in intermediate-goods producer branches and by 0.3% in capital goods producer branches. Prices in consumer goods producer branches dropped 0.4%.