根据美国劳工部今天在华盛顿公布的数据，消费价格指数下降0.1%，是自2009年3月以来第一次下降。

The 0.1 percent fall in the consumer price index was the first decrease since March 2009, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington.

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虽然大多数食品不在增值税调整之列，消费者却难以幸免：根据经济学人商品价格指数，全球食品价格去年上升了27%。

Most food escapes VAT, but that will not spare consumers: global food prices have risen by 27% in the past year, according to the Economist's commodity-price index.

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根据道琼斯通讯社（Dow Jones Newswires survey）的一项调查，该国六月份消费指数增加2.9%，而其生产价格指数要比去年同期增长6.4%。

The country's consumer price index for June increased 2.9%, while its producer price index expanded 6.4% from the year-earlier month.

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