EU chemical industry producer prices rise 1.5% in January

02 March 2010 11:36  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Chemical industry producer prices in the 27-member EU rose 1.5% year on year in January, according to figures released on Tuesday by official statistics agency Eurostat.

In the 16 eurozone countries, chemicals prices in January increased 0.9% compared with the same month last year.

Month on month, EU chemical industry producer prices in January rose 0.8% and were up 0.6% in the eurozone.

Overall industrial producer prices in the EU rose by 0.1% year on year in January, while eurozone prices dropped 1.0%.

January 2010 compared with December 2009, industrial producer prices increased by 0.9% in the EU and by 0.7% in the eurozone.

European industrial and chemical producer prices

	January 2010 vs January 2009	January 2010 vs December 2009
EU chemicals	1.5%	0.8%
Eurozone chemicals	0.9%	0.6%
EU industry	0.1%	0.9%
Eurozone industry	-1.0%	0.7%

Source: Eurostat

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