Sentence examples for consumer costs from inspiring English sources

As of May 2014, the Consumer Price Index was 125.8 relative to 2002 prices, reflecting consumer costs at the Canadian average.

Competition has driven huge investment, innovation and lower consumer costs.

Broker trade groups say their industry will shrivel and consumer costs will go up.

When interest rates go up, as expected, business and consumer costs will follow, Mr. Carstensen said.

It would lower consumer costs and increase consumer safety — and industry would rightly foot much of the bill.

The implication was that this was somehow going to translate into lower consumer costs, which is false.

Many governments attempt to resolve this problem by protecting politically favoured producers while also reducing consumer costs.

(The study did not account for many other personal consumer costs, like clothing, because data are not available).

But the agency said the public health benefits would more than compensate for initial consumer costs, and environmentalists agreed.

The Chinese authorities are intensely sensitive to rising consumer costs and social tensions that could be set off by soaring food and fuel prices.

According to the country's national director of energy, Ramón Méndez, the shift to clean energy has been achieved without government subsidies or higher consumer costs.