BLS International Price Program · Export price indexes by end use, not seasonally adjusted
How have the prices of what the United States exports changed?
The month ended : of the 6 lines, the change over a year was largest for Industrial supplies and materials, up 23.3%, and smallest for Automotive vehicles, parts and engines, up 2.6%.
Export prices, goods by end use, each month
- Agricultural foods, feeds and beverages257.9173.9 to 267.8
- Industrial supplies and materials253.9127.2 to 261.8
- Capital goods131.4106.7 to 131.4
- Automotive vehicles, parts and engines136.8112.5 to 136.8
- Consumer goods excluding automotive125.1107.7 to 125.1
Each row is one line of the page over the last ten years, one month to a point, on a scale shared by the rows of the tab, with its newest value and its range printed beside it and a dashed line at zero. A gap is a month with no value. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.
Observed .
Right now
Over a year to September 2026, of the 6 lines on this page the change was largest for Industrial supplies and materials, up 23.3%, and smallest for Automotive vehicles, parts and engines, up 2.6%.
Of these lines, 6 rose, 0 fell and 0 did not change over the year (ours, from the published values).
By lineOver a year, ours
Export prices, change over a year, by line
- All exports
- Goods by end use
Each bar is the change in one line over a year, the largest first, with its rank at the left and its newest value under the figure. A line with its own page links it from its name. A change below zero runs to the left of the zero line. The colour says which section of the page a line is in.
Observed .
Export prices, change over a year in each month
| Line | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All exports | – | +3.3 | +3.4 | +2.5 | +3.8 | +5.6 | +9.3 | +11.3 | +10.0 | +8.1 | +9.3 | +11.6 |
| Agricultural foods, feeds and beverages | +2.4 | +3.5 | +2.4 | +2.3 | +3.0 | +3.6 | +5.1 | +5.2 | +4.3 | +5.2 | +5.7 | +9.0 |
| Industrial supplies and materials | – | +4.7 | +5.0 | +2.1 | +5.4 | +10.0 | +19.5 | +25.2 | +21.5 | +15.8 | +18.7 | +23.3 |
| Capital goods | – | +2.0 | +2.1 | +2.7 | +2.7 | +2.5 | +2.7 | +2.6 | +3.1 | +3.4 | +3.6 | +4.2 |
| Automotive vehicles, parts and engines | – | +2.8 | +2.6 | +2.7 | +2.5 | +2.4 | +1.6 | +1.4 | +1.4 | +2.1 | +2.3 | +2.6 |
| Consumer goods excluding automotive | – | +2.4 | +3.4 | +3.5 | +3.7 | +3.6 | +3.7 | +3.7 | +3.1 | +3.3 | +2.7 | +4.0 |
Each chip is one month's change from the same month a year earlier. The mark in its middle is zero: a fill to the right of it is a rise and a fill to the left a fall. A longer, brighter fill is a larger change, in five steps up to 11.6 and over. Every chip prints its figure and sign. A dash is a month with no figure.
Observed .
Understanding export prices
Where it stands today
The largest change over a year was Industrial supplies and materials, up 23.3%, in September 2026.
What do the lines of this page measure?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measures the change in the prices of goods that the United States exports, with its International Price Program, and publishes the export price indexes each month, about two weeks after the month ends. BLS builds them from the prices that a sample of US exporters report, and groups goods by their end use: agricultural foods, feeds and beverages; industrial supplies and materials; capital goods; automotive vehicles, parts and engines; and consumer goods.
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All exports and the agricultural index have pages of their own.
What 500metrics adds: the change over a year of every index, ranked across the page; the last ten years of every index as rows of small charts; and a table of the change over a year in each of the last twelve months. Lines with a link have a page of their own with the history since the series begins.
The numbers behind the chart
What is the latest value of each line?6 lines, in the sections of the page
| Line | Section | Month | Value | Change over a year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All exports | All exports | 170.8 | +11.6% | 2 | |
| Agricultural foods, feeds and beverages | Goods by end use | 257.9 | +9.0% | 3 | |
| Industrial supplies and materials | Goods by end use | 253.9 | +23.3% | 1 | |
| Capital goods | Goods by end use | 131.4 | +4.2% | 4 | |
| Automotive vehicles, parts and engines | Goods by end use | 136.8 | +2.6% | 6 | |
| Consumer goods excluding automotive | Goods by end use | 125.1 | +4.0% | 5 |
The table scrolls sideways; the first column stays in place.
What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite
What this number cannot tell you
- Every line is a part of all exports.
- The index is not adjusted for the season. A month-to-month change can include the usual swings of the calendar year.
- The index has no unit. BLS sets a base period for each series and gives it the value 100 there, so the values of two series cannot be compared with each other; only their changes can.
- BLS revises an index in the months after it first publishes it, and this page shows the newest values. A month with no value shows as a gap in the chart.
- The index is shown to one decimal. The changes and the ranks are ours, worked out from the values BLS publishes; a change is in percent.
Observed . Checked .
How to cite this
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Import/Export Price Indexes, Export price indexes by end use, not seasonally adjusted, through September 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How have the prices of what the United States exports changed?", https://500metrics.com/export-prices.
Can the data be downloaded?export-prices.csv
Download the last ten years of every line as CSV: 721 rows, to , 46,472 bytes.
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