According to Istat, Italy's national statistics office, in January this year industrial production sales prices in Italy increased by 0.7 percent compared to December and by 3.3 percent year on year.
In January, the prices of industrial products sold in the local Italian market were up 0.7 percent month on month and grew by 3.4 percent year on year, while the price index of products sold in foreign markets increased by 0.3 percent compared to December (+0.3 in the euro area and +0.4 outside the euro area) and rose by 2.7 percent year on year (+2.4 percent in the euro area and +3.0 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 17 percent and 22.4 percent year on year.