Import, export prices signal terms-of-trade fall

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By Leith van Onselen

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released export and import prices for the September quarter, which portends another fall in Australia’s terms-of-trade when the national accounts are released in early December.

According to the ABS, export prices fell by 3.0% over the September quarter but were up by 14.2% over the year, whereas import prices fell by 1.6% over the quarter and were down by 0.4% over the year:

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.