{"id":431118,"date":"2026-05-29T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/german-import-prices-climb-further-in-april-as-us-iran-conflict-continues-to-reverberate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:40:06","slug":"german-import-prices-climb-further-in-april-as-us-iran-conflict-continues-to-reverberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/german-import-prices-climb-further-in-april-as-us-iran-conflict-continues-to-reverberate\/","title":{"rendered":"German import prices climb further in April as US-Iran conflict continues to reverberate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Import prices +1.2% vs +1.1% m\/m expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +3.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The annual change shows that German import prices were seen up by 5.3% compared to April last year. That represents the strongest year-on-year increase since January 2023. After the spike in March, we&#8217;re seeing a continued rise in import prices as the fallout from the Middle East conflict continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">That is leading to a further surge in energy prices but also the prices for intermediate goods. The former was up 2.8% on the month and 31.0% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the latter is up 2.4% on the month and 7.8% year-on-year. So, those two are the biggest contributors to the rise in import prices for April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Among intermediate goods, non-ferrous metals and their semi-finished products were significantly more expensive. And adding to that, prices for imported fertilizers and nitrogen compounds were also considerably higher compared to the month before (+7.6%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Even when excluding energy prices, import prices were still up by 1.0% on the month and 2.8% compared to April last year. As such, it also reflects a broader increase in other categories such as prices for capital goods (+0.5%), durable consumer goods (+0.1%), and non-durable consumer goods (+0.1%).<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Import prices +1.2% vs +1.1% m\/m expected Prior +3.6% The annual change shows that German import prices were seen up by 5.3% compared to April last year. That represents the strongest year-on-year increase since January 2023. After the spike in March, we&#8217;re seeing a continued rise in import prices as the fallout from the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}