The price of intermediate goods rose 0.9 percent after small declines in the previous two months.

But the prices of intermediate goods remained flat at January's level.

Fixed prices were classified as material and basic intermediate goods.

It is not used up immediately in the process of production unlike raw materials or intermediate goods.

This implies that there should be no taxes on intermediate goods and imports.

Prices were unchanged for intermediate goods, like bolts of cloth.

Imports of other consumer and intermediate goods both fell marginally.

The traded intermediate goods are then used as inputs of productions.

For intermediate goods, like a bolt of cloth, prices were unchanged over all.

There has also been an unprecedented decline for six straight months in the price of intermediate goods like parts and components.

Most macroeconomic models, in order to avoid the analysis of intermediate goods, use that notion.

But raw material prices rose a full 1 percent, and intermediate goods 1.1 percent.

But the price increases at the intermediate goods level, excluding food and energy, continue to generate some concern to investors.

The prices for intermediate goods excluding food and energy, like material used in manufacturing, have jumped 7.3 percent since last June.

It has not the concept of intermediate goods.

The index for intermediate goods is a better gauge of inflationary trends several months away.

Over the last year, the inflation in intermediate goods was a negligible two-tenths of 1 percent.

"First commodity prices rise, then intermediate goods, then finished products."

Intermediate goods, which require finishing before being passed on to retailers, rose six-tenths of 1 percent.

Over all, intermediate goods edged down one-tenth of a percent for the second straight month, after showing no change in October.

Among intermediate goods, nondurable factory materials jumped 2 percent, after a 1.1 December advance.

This is a great deficiency as trade theory, for intermediate goods occupy the major part of the world international trade.

Economists said this was particularly heartening since the producer prices of some intermediate goods had surged recently.

But the index for intermediate goods, which foreshadows longer-term price trends, was up a strong 0.8 percent.

As suggested above, the core input-output table reports only intermediate goods and services that are exchanged among industries.