Import price indices, September 2025

Import prices slightly higher than in the previous month, but still lower year-on-year

Import prices in September were on average 0.1% higher than in August and 0.6% lower than a year earlier. Both at the monthly and annual levels, prices increased the most in the section electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning.

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Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning more expensive month-on-month

The prices of imported products were on average 0.1% higher than the month ago. The prices of products supplied from the euro area were higher by 0.3%, while the prices of products imported from the non-euro area remained unchanged.

Energy prices increased by 1.2% and capital goods prices by 0.2%. Intermediate and consumer goods prices did not change.

Compared to the previous month, prices went up the most in the section electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning (by 5.6%), and down the most in the group other transport equipment (by 3.3%), which is part of manufactured products, where prices increased by 0.1%.

Year-on-year, still lower prices in the group coal and lignite

Compared to last September, import prices went down on average by 0.6%. The prices of products supplied from the euro area decreased by 0.1% and the prices of products imported from the non-euro area by 0.9%.

The largest year-on-year price drops were again recorded in the section mining and quarrying in the group coal and lignite (by 14.7%), while this time the prices increased the most in the section electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning (by 32.8%).

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Annual growth rates of import prices, Slovenia
Annual growth rates of import prices, Slovenia
Growth rates of import prices, Slovenia
Sep 2025
Aug 2025
Sep 2025
Dec 2024
Sep 2025
Sep 2024
Jan–Sep 2025
Jan–Sep 2024
Total0.1-1.1-0.6-0.9
Euro area0.3-0.4-0.1-0.4
Non-euro area0.0-1.9-0.9-1.6
Main industrial groups
Intermediate goods0.0-0.5-1.0-1.6
Energy1.2-5.11.81.3
Capital goods0.20.20.0-0.1
Consumer goods0.0-1.6-1.5-1.7
Products by Classification of Products by Activity (CPA 2015)
B Mining and quarrying1.0-10.8-9.6-5.7
C Manufactured products0.1-0.9-1.0-1.7
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning5.6-6.132.847.7
METHODOLOGICAL NOTE
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