Year over year, the import price index gained 6.7%, short of the 8.2% expected by analysts.
Separately, the January import price index rose 1.7%, higher than expected, while the export price index rose 1.2%.
"Some good news also was the sharp decline in the August import price index, " Stone said of the 3.7% drop, well ahead of Wall Street's 1.8% expectation.
Separately, the U.S. Labor Department said the October import price index fell 4.7% month over month, a few ticks more than the 4.4% drop expected by Wall Street, for the biggest one-month drop since 1988.
Already, import-price inflation has surged to 4.9% in the year to the final quarter of 2007 from 0.8% in the previous three months.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday is light and includes import and export price indexes.
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U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, import and export price indexes, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, import and export price indexes, the international trade in goods and services report and the Treasury budget statement.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes import and export price indexes, the weekly jobless claims report, the trade in goods and services report and the monthly Treasury budget statement.
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No, really, Lifesavers are now made in Canada because they can buy sugar at that lower world price and then import the candy without paying the sugar duty.
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The government has been trying to stem price rises by cutting import duties and excise taxes.
However, some materials, such as cement, that are expensive to import have suffered from shortages and price spikes.
Now it would have the additional advantage of removing price pressures through lower import prices and freeing the central bank to pursue anti-inflationary monetary policies.
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Eva Solo's CafeSolo does the same job for twice the price, but the Danish import looks a lot cooler.
Yet growers there, in South Africa and in Mozambique have to struggle against import quotas and a low world sugar price, thanks to heavy subsidies for farmers in Europe and America.
Now germans have to pay a higher price next year and have to import more gas from russia.
In February, Dai-Nippon Meiji Sugar and Nissin Sugar announced plans to start joint production as a way of preparing for the end of Japan's sugar-price support system and the elimination of import tariffs next year.
In other words, if the price of Chinese goods to American consumers increased by 21 percent (on average) and Americans reduced their consumption of Chinese goods by less than 21 percent, then demand would be considered inelastic, the price effect would dominate, and total import value would rise (adding to the trade deficit).
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The raising of the value of the Yuan can make it less expensive for China to import oil and other commodities but can also increase the price of oil to the U.S. consumers as the value of the dollar continues to decline.
Price parity is net of transportation costs and of import taxes both.
India too had several serious economic issues during the first half of the year (including high import duties, market turmoil and a local spike in the price of gold) that resulted in a reduction for gold jewelry.
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Albaugh told Monsanto that, if need be, he would import glyphosate from Argentina, which could push the U.S. price of glyphosate down.
Also in this period, there was remarkable price stability and so little unemployment that the nation had to import tens of millions of workers from abroad.
Making the drug supply safer could also make it easier for the U.S. government to import branded medicines safely from Canada, where they are cheaper because of price controls.
But this market depends on the corn price being so high as to make it profitable to pay the import tariff.
She has been accused of taking a soft line in a dispute with Argentina over the price of gas, unfairly since Chile has no choice but to import it.
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The US has high import tariffs on sugar, so high in fact that the internal to the US price of sugar is double the world price.
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