The index of imported prices increased 0.8percentt last month, after rising 0.3percentt in May, the Labor Department said.
The index of imported prices for goods outside of petroleum products fell 0.2percentt last month after rising 0.1percentt in April, the Labor Department said.
Over the same period, the index of imported products increased by 48% [ 8].
That to me was an index of the import.
An European Liner Affairs Association index of European import rates fell below 50 in March, from 100 in 2008, before recovering to 80 in the autumn.
After years of showing little change, a United States Bureau of Labor Statistics index of average import prices suddenly jumped 0.3 percent from September to October, then jumped the same amount in November and again in December.
For the terms-of-trade variable, we used two alternative indicators: (1) the natural logarithm of the net barter terms of trade taken from the WDI, which is expressed as an index with base value 100 for the year 2000, and (2) the natural logarithm of an index that we computed dividing the price of exports index by the price of imports index of the PWT.
The capacity of a predictive model to learn from new correctly-classified cases, day by day, is an import index of quality, especially in clinical practice where data is usually scarce and training on new data becomes of crucial importance.
We also use an index of openness, the ratio of imports and exports over GDP.
A Bureau of Labor Statistics index of average prices for imports of manufactured goods from such countries fell gradually through early 2004, but is now rising briskly and was up 5.6percentt in February from the same month last year.
