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•  General PPI of June increased by 4.0 % when compared with the previous month’s.
•  PPI of Crude Petroleum and Natural gas increased by 6.0 % when compared with the previous month’s.
•  PPI of Manufacturing increase by 1.3 % when compared with the previous month’s.

Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) have released the Monthly Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Industrial sector for June 2016 with the base year 2013. Producer price index covers goods relating to “Mining” (weight: 72.7%), “Electricity & Water” (weight: 0.5%) and “Manufacturing” (weight: 26.8%).

 Mining

The PPI of June, 2016 shows a rise of 6.0% when compared with PPI of May 2016, primarily due to the increased in prices of “Crude petroleum and natural gas”. PPI of June 2016, when compared with its counterpart in the previous year, there has been a significant fall of 30.1%. Figure (1) shows the movement of “Mining” index during June 2015 and June 2016.

Manufacturing
An increase of 1.3% has been observed in June, 2016, when compared with the previous month’s Manufacturing index during this year. The increasing prices are noticed in ”Basic Metals” by 8.7%,  “Juices” by 7.1% “Refined Petroleum Products” by 2.4%, “Grain Mill products” by 0.7%, "Other Chemical products” by 0.4%,  However, the prices decrease are seen in:  “Basic Chemicals” by 3.5%,   “Rubber and Plastics products” by 2.4%,  “Cement and other Non-metallic products” by 1.0%,  “Beverages” by 0.4%, and “Dairy products” by 0.3%. No change noticed in Paper and Paper Products.

Comparing with the index of counterpart in the previous year (June  2015), “Manufacturing” PPI of June, 2016 showed a sharp decline of 15.4%. The major groups which explain this price fall are “Basic Chemicals” by 19.4%,  “Refined Petroleum Products” by 16.0%, ”Basic Metals” by 14.7%,  “Other Chemical products” by 5.9%, “Dairy products” by 2.8%, “Grain Product” by 0.4%.  However, prices rise are also noticed in “Juices” by 9.1%, “Cement and other Non-metallic products” by 6.5%,“Beverages” by 2.3%, “Rubber and Plastic product” by 0.9%. No change noticed in Paper and Paper Products.

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More details on monthly/annual comparison of indices are available in Table (1) and figures (3) and (4) of the Press Release. Further detailed data and indices would be available on the Ministry’s website, www.mdps.gov.qa and Qatar Information Exchange,, www.qalm.gov.qa.