The Producer Price Index (IPP), which measures the change in prices of products at the exit of factories, registered inflation of 1.18% in January this year. In December 2021, the IPP had deflated (price drop) of 0.08%.
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the IPP accumulates an inflation rate of 25.51% in 12 months, below the inflation accumulated in December (28.45%).
In January, 18 of the 24 industrial activities surveyed had a rise in prices, especially mining and quarrying industries (9.54%), oil and biofuels (2.26%) and automotive vehicles (2.27%).
Clothing had no price variation. Among the five segments with deflation, the highlight was metallurgy (-1.48%).
Analyzing the four major economic categories of the industry, three of them had inflation: capital goods, that is, machinery and equipment used in the productive sector (2.56%); intermediate goods, that is, industrialized inputs used in the productive sector (1.73%) and durable consumer goods (1.20%). Semi-durable and non-durable consumer goods had deflation of 0.27%.
