5.66% is the average increase in the prices of Wholesale Trade for the first quarter of 2022
The quarterly report of the wholesale trade prices issued by the Department of Statistics indicates an increase in the average wholesale trade general index number by 5.66% for the first quarter of 2022 to reach 102.64 compared with 97.14 during the same period of 2021. This increase has resulted from the increase in prices of “sale of fuel, metals and construction materials and fittings” by 14.23% or 2.91 percentage points, “ sale of agricultural raw materials, grains, food, beverages and tobacco” by 3.54%, or 1.36 percentage points, “sale of Motor Vehicles Group and their Parts” by 2.94%, or 0.57 percentage points, “ sale of machinery, equipment and supplies” by 5.33%, or 0.49 percentage points, “ sale of textiles, clothing and personal housing products” by 3.00% as this group contributed to the increase in the index number by 0.32 percentage points with a relative importance of 20.76%, 39.22%, 19.79% ,9.33%, 10.91% respectively.
