Industrial PPI at 37% in Q3

The average Producer Price Index of the industrial sector in the four-quarter period ending Dec. 20 grew by 37.4% compared with the same period of last year. 
The sector’s PPI for the four-quarter period to Sept. 21, which marked the end of Q2 of the current Iranian year, had increased by 23.9%.
The lowest average annual PPI inflation was recorded by “production of coke and petroleum refineries’ byproducts” with 4.6% and the highest increase was registered for “manufacture of other transportation equipment” with 108.8%, “production of base metals” with 83.9%, “furniture production” with 54.4% and “manufacture of electricity generating equipment” with 53.8%, the Statistical Center of Iran reported.