Commodity and Import Price Indexes Up in Third Quarter 2025

Jerusalem, 14 December, 2025 (TPS-IL) — Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released the data on foreign trade price indices for the third quarter (July – September) of 2025.

In the third quarter of 2025:

The commodity export price index rose by 1.5%.

The import price index for goods rose by 1.4%.

The price index for exports of the chemical and their products manufacturing industry increased by 2.2%.

The price index for imports of precious metals rose by 6.4%.

The commodity export price index (excluding ships, aircraft and diamonds) increased by 1.6% in the third quarter of 2025, following a 0.8% increase in the previous quarter.

In the third quarter of 2025, the import price index for goods (excluding ships, aircraft, diamonds and energy materials) increased by 1.0%, following a 2.8% increase in the previous quarter.

In the third quarter of 2025, there was a 0.6% increase in the terms of trade index (excluding ships, aircraft, diamonds and energy materials). The terms of trade index is defined as the ratio between the change in export price indices and the import price indices.