Australia - Harga Impor

Australia's import prices rose by 0.9 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to June 2019, following a 0.5 percent fall in the prior quarter but missing market consensus of a 1.8 percent rise. Main contributors to the increase were petroleum, petroleum products and related materials (6.1 percent), due to a decrease in global supply, and other transport equipment (7.1 percent), reflecting increases in transport and supply costs. Meanwhile, prices fell for telecommunications and sound-recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (-1.4 percent) due to discounting on smart phones, and inorganic chemicals (-10.9 percent) driven by lower global demand for caustic soda. Through the year to the June quarter, import prices advanced 2.8 percent.

Australia's import prices declined by 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to March 2019, after a 0.5 percent gain in the prior quarter and compared market consensus of a 1.1 percent drop . It marked the first decrease in the index since the third quarter of 2017, when the reading fell 1.6 percent. Main contributors to the decline were mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials (-5.9 percent); chemicals and related products, n.e.s (-2.2 percent); food and live animals (-1.2 percent); and crude materials, inedible, except fuels (-0.9 percent). Through the year to the March quarter, the index rose 5.2 percent, slowing from a 7.8 percent gain in the previous quarter and reaching the weakest yearly reading in a year.

Australia's import prices increased by 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to December 2018, much slower than a 1.9 percent rise in the prior period and compared to market consensus of 0.3 percent. It marked the weakest reading since a decline in the third quarter 2017, mainly driven by higher prices paid for: crude materials, inedible, except fuels (5.9 pct); commodities and transactions, n.e.s. (3.3 pct); manufactured goods classified chiefly by material (1.8 pct); machinery and transport equipment (1.1 pct); beverages & tobacco (0.7 pct); miscellaneous manufactured articles (0.9 pct); food and live animals (0.6 pct); and chemicals and related products, n.e.s. (0.3 pct). Through the year to the fourth quarter, the index rose 7.8 percent.