Sentences with phrase «price of imports»

Prices of imported goods at the wholesale level, which typically move more closely in line with the exchange rate, have fallen much more rapidly than those of imported retail goods.

The lower level of the exchange rate, if sustained, is also likely to generate direct upward pressure on prices of imported and import - competing consumer goods.

However, the appreciation of the Australian dollar has reduced prices of imported capital equipment markedly, so this result points to solid growth in real terms.

In fact, the tariffs could actually lower prices of imports that use steel, particularly in big, competitive markets like cars.

«This time what we see is that, the cedi continues to be stable and prices of imported items also remained relatively stable.

Six steelmakers with major U.S. operations filed a trade complaint on Wednesday seeking punitive tariffs for alleged unfair pricing of imported steel from China, India, Italy, South Korea and Taiwan.

«The recent strengthening of the yen implies that prices of imported consumer goods will continue to fall.

In the interim, border tax adjustments can equalize prices of imports from non-carbon-taxing nations.

Important near - term influences on prices will be the significant increases in production costs that have occurred recently, arising from higher fuel prices, increases in a range of other commodity prices and the effect of the lower exchange rate on prices of imported inputs.

There will be some short - term benefit to U.S. module makers from import duties on solar, but it is not clear that this will offset lower levels of deployment incurred by both the higher price of imported solar and the uncertainty created by the Section 201 process.

As Graph 30 illustrates, the rise in the over-the-docks price of imports in the past year has been more consistent with, although smaller than, the decline of the Australian dollar against the major currencies in the industrialised world (of which the exchange rate against the SDR is a convenient measure).

The average price of an imported car is close to a clammy $ 18,000, and the subcompact Mitsubishi Mirage costs less than half that.

Torsten Sløk of Deutsche Bank shares the chart of how Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, and notes that «when prices of imported steel and aluminum increase it will hurt states that are big importers of steel and aluminum» (For more discussion see here and here).

Excluding oil, the domestic component increased by around 1 per cent in the June quarter, driven by rises in utilities and metal ore prices, while the non-oil-related prices of imported inputs rose by a similar amount.

Prices of imported consumption goods at the docks increased by almost 4 per cent in the June quarter, after a very modest rise in the March quarter, and have now regained their level of nearly two years ago.

The relationship between the exchange rate and developments in the wholesale prices of imported goods is being complicated at present by the widely divergent movements in trading - partner exchange rates.

Tata's chief executive officer says Tata Mundra won't be financially viable unless it gets a hefty rate increase to offset the soaring prices of imported Indonesian coal.

In reality, increased energy taxes will shrink the trade deficit (by cutting both volumes and pre-tax prices of imported oil).

Amy Price, senior food and drink analyst at market research firm Mintel, told CNBC via email: «The deterioration in the exchange rate will put upward pressure on prices of imported goods, including wine.

At the retail level, prices of imported consumer goods fell in the year to the March quarter by just over 1 per cent; domestically produced goods prices are also rising more slowly than a year ago, but the slowing is less pronounced and, in the year to March, domestic goods prices rose by about 3 per cent.

«Robust growth in the double - digit percentage range goes on, despite recent hikes in household utility costs and a widespread expectation among consumers that prices of imported cars (will) drop» following (Russia's) World Trade Organization entry,» group chairman Joerg Schreiber says.

Imposing tariffs that raise the price of imported steel by 25 % and aluminum by 10 % allows them to once again get lazy, and avoid the tough choices needed to be globally competitive.

The move could drive up the price of imported vehicles, and as a result protect vehicles made by American workers.

«The falling pound is driving up the price of imports and rising oil prices are being reflected in higher fuel costs,» he added.

Analysts say it will take time for the yen's slide to 3-1/2 - year lows, which has been driven by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for aggressive monetary easing and fiscal pump priming, to feed through to improved exports even though it immediately raises the price of imports.

It lost over 11 % of its trade - weighted value in the four months that followed, forcing up the price of imports.

Put another way, countries that see the price of imports go up may simply choose to export elsewhere rather than to the US and also decide not to accept as many US exports.

Core inflation is higher than the underlying trend, because a decline in the dollar is raising the prices of imports.

But if America's net exports grow because new Trump - imposed taxes cause the price of imported goods to surge, then the economy is going to shrink.

Total CPI inflation remains near the bottom of the Bank's target range as the disinflationary effects of economic slack and low consumer energy prices are only partially offset by the inflationary impact of the lower Canadian dollar on the prices of imported goods.

Core inflation is currently higher than the underlying trend, because the lower dollar is raising the prices of imports.

This increased the price of imports, pushing up prices accordingly.

The surge in commodity prices increased the terms of trade — the ratio of the price of exported goods to the price of imported goods — in both economies, but the effect in Australia was far stronger than what we saw:

It raises the price of the import.

In contrast, core inflation, which strips out the most volatile inflation components, is facing upward pressure because recent declines in the exchange rate are boosting the prices of imported goods.

This usually consists of tariffs that raise the prices of imports.

Unchallenged so far are any of the other tariff increases that Moffatt has identified which will increase the price of imported bicycles, baby carriages, school supplies, wigs, USB drives, coffeemakers, rugs, paintbrushes, plastic tableware, sandals, scissors and carving knives.

Final producer prices of capital goods have increased due to the higher price of project home prices and exchange - rate induced increases in the price of imports, such as industrial machinery and computer equipment.

Australia's terms of trade, a measure of the relative price of Australia's exports to the price of imported items, rose to its highest level in 27 years in the December quarter, and the recent strength in many international commodity prices, particularly in the resources sector, suggests that the terms of trade has risen further over the first few months of 2004.

On the other hand, tariffs would raise the price of imports for American consumers.

Any trade change would threaten the flow and price of these imports.

Standard trade theory indicates that by unilaterally introducing tariffs, a large country not only limits its imports from the rest of the world but also reduces the price of its imports relative to their exports, thereby benefiting from an improvement in its terms - of - trade.

An appreciation of the exchange rate means that: the increase in the domestic currency price of commodity exports will be less than the increase in world commodity prices; the income of the other tradable sector will fall; and real income gains flow to the broader economy via the associated decline in the price of imports.

Conversely, inflationary pressures in the tradable sector will be generated by any depreciation of the exchange rate, although it can take some time for currency movements to be reflected fully in the prices of imported consumer goods and services (Chung, Kohler and Lewis 2011).

When the dollar declines relative to the value of foreign currencies, the prices of imports rise.

In the short and medium term, however, the adjustment would likely be only partial; this partial exchange rate adjustment would result in an increase in the price of imported goods, with a temporary boost to inflation that we estimate could be around one percentage point.