Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China

Price Indices of Raw Material (2005/05)

Wednesday,August 02,2006 Posted: 15:08 BJT(0708 GMT) MOFCOM

	May			Total
	Compared with April, 2005	Compared with the same period of 2004	Compared with the Beginning of 2005	Compared with the same period of 2004	Compared with the Beginning of 2005
General Index	98.99	106.21	102.29	105.83	101.79
Ⅰ Ferrous Metal	97.23	110.03	106.35	104.60	106.13
steel	97.32	110.70	106.49	104.68	106.32
shaped steel	97.02	101.63	103.67	92.64	103.90
wire	95.30	119.35	102.64	98.20	105.29
plate	97.44	105.91	107.70	108.03	107.07
sheet	97.82	126.32	112.72	120.11	111.81
welding steel tube	100.34	110.08	109.75	111.92	105.61
scraped steel	95.36	102.67	98.48	111.57	102.10
foundry pig iron	96.06	97.99	107.00	99.20	103.64
ⅡNon-Ferrous Metal	98.09	110.03	104.54	110.68	103.65
copper	97.80	129.60	112.31	126.95	108.08
aluminum	97.88	97.99	101.04	97.16	101.20
lead	99.60	109.64	99.55	114.86	100.20
zinc	98.68	108.05	106.77	112.12	106.93
Ⅲ Chemical Products	97.20	112.53	100.76	116.92	102.19
natural rubber	99.17	92.13	99.99	93.15	99.66
tyre	99.90	98.58	100.21	100.18	100.18
polypropylene	94.69	122.58	109.90	125.45	109.45
ABS resin	97.38	121.97	105.44	124.63	104.07
soda ash	99.18	121.74	103.38	124.54	103.47
caustic soda	99.30	114.92	109.35	114.11	108.62
Ⅳ、Coal	100.00	112.86	101.36	117.09	101.44
bituminous coal	100.00	112.62	101.31	116.66	101.41
anthracite coal	100.00	113.64	101.51	118.46	101.52
Ⅴ Crude Oil & Products	101.87	115.70	107.01	113.68	101.27
diesel oil	102.69	117.08	104.63	113.41	99.83
gasoline	99.92	110.84	106.34	110.76	101.35
Ⅵ Timber	100.00	98.50	101.57	97.90	101.29
logs	100.00	98.55	102.18	97.64	101.78
sawn timbers	100.00	97.57	99.87	97.99	99.94
plywood	100.00	101.01	100.27	100.59	100.12
ⅦConstruction Material	99.97	98.47	99.98	101.37	100.14
cement	100.03	90.95	97.16	92.24	98.23
Ⅷ Electromechanical Products	100.58	95.70	97.79	95.72	97.54
machine tool	100.42	95.55	97.60	95.66	97.39
AC electric motor	102.62	90.51	95.06	89.38	94.36
bulldozers	100.00	97.92	101.18	97.28	100.51
Ⅸ Automobile	99.72	92.32	96.17	92.70	97.46
truck	99.82	97.54	97.90	97.56	98.59
car	99.68	88.72	94.45	88.83	96.02

(Source: Network Center of MOFCOM)

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