Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China

Price Indices of Raw Material (2005/10)

Wednesday,August 02,2006 Posted: 15:19 BJT(0719 GMT) MOFCOM

	October			Total
	Compared with September, 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	98.62	99.76	99.80	103.90	101.20
Ⅰ Ferrous Metal	93.88	89.83	88.81	101.00	100.82
steel	93.65	89.42	88.40	101.01	100.85
shaped steel	97.34	94.90	96.16	95.40	101.07
wire	95.08	87.94	90.68	96.51	100.14
plate	83.90	74.87	74.10	101.59	99.63
sheet	91.96	88.54	83.55	108.15	102.32
welding steel tube	95.77	99.07	97.72	108.33	103.94
scraped steel	98.14	97.49	94.07	108.76	98.60
foundry pig iron	97.12	95.62	95.82	96.85	101.07
ⅡNon-Ferrous Metal	104.47	110.06	110.59	110.08	104.71
copper	105.62	127.43	124.64	125.52	112.11
aluminum	106.79	101.24	102.73	98.72	100.57
lead	101.13	96.48	97.58	108.30	98.80
zinc	104.63	125.95	127.72	117.70	111.61
Ⅲ Chemical Products	100.04	101.00	101.97	110.85	101.78
natural rubber	105.29	136.52	138.00	106.43	112.53
tyre	100.85	102.50	102.36	100.99	100.53
polypropylene	98.42	96.75	111.23	114.65	110.43
ABS resin	100.30	98.62	109.41	115.35	105.90
soda ash	99.49	101.61	95.41	117.10	100.61
caustic soda	99.80	109.07	111.80	114.04	110.10
Ⅳ、Coal	100.92	107.07	99.73	112.97	100.67
bituminous coal	100.92	106.82	99.65	112.64	100.62
anthracite coal	100.92	107.89	100.00	114.05	100.82
Ⅴ Crude Oil & Products	99.12	118.87	119.99	115.70	108.34
diesel oil	98.50	118.40	117.48	116.02	106.75
gasoline	99.16	117.04	121.06	112.88	108.26
Ⅵ Timber	100.00	102.53	101.92	99.00	101.58
logs	100.00	103.45	102.66	99.06	102.18
sawn timbers	100.00	99.83	99.87	98.28	99.91
plywood	100.00	101.02	100.27	100.76	100.20
ⅦConstruction Material	99.98	98.62	97.86	99.62	99.29
cement	99.97	93.25	93.07	91.86	96.21
Ⅷ Electromechanical Products	99.68	95.50	96.62	95.63	97.36
machine tool	99.70	95.35	96.47	95.52	97.20
AC electric motor	100.00	90.80	94.13	90.11	94.54
bulldozers	100.00	99.75	100.86	97.72	100.75
Ⅸ Automobile	99.20	93.25	94.26	92.89	96.39
truck	99.12	97.39	95.89	97.68	97.75
car	99.16	90.11	92.47	89.31	94.81

(Source: Network Center of MOFCOM)

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