Higher input prices stemming from antidumping measures are only the first assault on these downstream firms.
The cost of input prices for firms was up, notably in food, fuel and cotton.
Thanks mainly to rising oil prices, manufacturers' input prices rose by 2.9% in November alone.
As commodity or other input prices rise, suppliers come knocking, pushing through commensurate increases.
Input prices continued to rise, particularly for fuel, other petroleum-based materials, metals, food, and chemicals.
Also at a March 2009 low was the HSBC sub-index for factory input prices.
Instead they need a combination of lower real wages, lower input prices and higher productivity.
The company said then that its cost of goods sold increased 11.0% because of rising input prices.
Businesses that use any of these products in their operations should expect competitive advantage from cheaper input prices.
Still, higher grain, hogs, and other input prices could threaten gross and operating margins, as they did last quarter.
This all means that an undervalued Yuan makes input prices (and production costs) higher than they otherwise would be.
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This compares to greater increases in food, energy and other input prices and recent data points to further inflation ahead.
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The acceleration was spread across manufacturing activities, indicating that producers are able to pass on higher input prices to consumers.
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All told, production-distorting aid (the sort keyed to crop and agricultural input prices) fell from about two-thirds of the total to less than one-third.
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You would not normally expect to see upward pressure on wages or other domestic input prices in such a flat economy, but these have not been normal times.
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Economically, artificially-created fuel demand for corn, soybean oil, grease, and other inputs drives up the input prices for food and consumer products such like french fries, soaps, detergents, hair conditioners, eggs, dairy, and sweeteners.
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Dousing the monetary tightening flames further was a cooling in cost pressures with input prices declining by 2% during the month and at twice the predicted pace leaving the annual pace of gain at a still admittedly high 15.7% pace.
Joseph Carson, an economist with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York, has concocted such an index, which considers changes in property prices and share prices, producer input and output prices, along with consumer prices.
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The company highlighted higher yields and volumes, but saw rising fuel prices and input costs as a possible obstacle going forward.
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Gross profit expanded from 13.3% to 14.2% of net sales as the company was generally able to pass along rising input costs through higher prices.
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Granted, being a packaged food company, it is highly susceptible to input costs, or food prices.
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There was, however, little relief from firm inflationary pressures that stoked both input as well as output prices.
Companies will be influenced positively by higher precious and base metal prices, stable input costs and a weaker U.S. dollar.
It is heavily dependent on natural gas prices as an input, and these costs could be surging if current trends hold.
Manufacturers reported lower input price pressures and lower prices passed to consumers, however demand for goods also fell to its lowest level since October.
"A good monsoon will also be deflationary, " Mr. Sabnavis said, noting that prices of food items depend not just on a good harvest, but also on farm input costs and whether the government increases assured prices of food staples.
As a result, the company says it will raise prices to offset higher input costs.
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The company had joined consumer products maker Kimberly-Clark, which reported earnings Monday, in raising prices to offset higher input costs.
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