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Foreign Trade Price Indices for 2025 Fell by 0.4%

Israel's 2025 export prices fell 0.4% and imports rose 1.3%, with notable shifts in refined petroleum and precious metals prices.

Economy

Jerusalem, 10 March, 2026 (TPS-IL) — Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported that in 2025 the country’s commodity export price index fell by 0.4% and the import price index for goods rose by 1.3%.

However, the commodity export price index (excluding ships, aircraft, and diamonds) remained unchanged in 2025, after a 0.2% decrease in 2024. The commodity import price index (excluding ships, aircraft, diamonds, and energy materials) increased by 2.9%, after a 0.7% decrease in 2024.

The price index for the refined petroleum production industry fell by 14.8%.

The price index for imports of precious metals increased by 17.7%.

In the last quarter of 2025, there was a 0.4% increase in imports of consumer goods.

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