In August this year, producer prices in French industry decreased by 0.1 percent month on month and were down by 1.6 percent year on year, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). Producer prices for manufactured products in France increased by 0.3 percent in August compared to July and were down 2.8 percent compared to the same month of 2014.
In August of the current year, prices for exported manufactured products increased by 0.5 percent month on month, while prices of exported transport equipment were up 0.1 percent compared to July. On year-on-year basis, in August prices of exported manufactured products increased by one percent and prices of exported transport equipment saw 1.2 percent growth.
Meanwhile, import prices for manufactured products in France in August increased by 0.5 percent compared to July and were down 0.7 percent compared to the same month of 2014.