According to Istat, Italy's national statistics office, in March this year industrial production sales prices in Italy increased by 0.3 percent compared to February and by 2.7 percent year on year.
In March, the prices of industrial products sold in the local market were up 0.3 percent month on month and rose by 2.7 percent year on year, while the price index of products sold in foreign markets increased by 0.1 percent compared to February (+0.2 in the euro area and +0.1 percent outside the euro area) and increased by 2.1 percent year on year (+1.3 percent in the euro area and +2.6 percent outside the euro area).
The coke and oil sector showed the steepest year-on-year increase in industrial production prices, as local and foreign sale prices rose respectively by 13 percent and 21.2 percent year on year.