{"id":437095,"date":"2026-08-28T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/german-import-prices-climb-in-july-as-impact-from-middle-east-conflict-continues-to-reverberate-437095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:00:25","slug":"german-import-prices-climb-in-july-as-impact-from-middle-east-conflict-continues-to-reverberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/german-import-prices-climb-in-july-as-impact-from-middle-east-conflict-continues-to-reverberate-437095\/","title":{"rendered":"German import prices climb in July as impact from Middle East conflict continues to reverberate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Germany July import prices +0.2% m\/m<\/li>\n<li>Prior -0.7%<\/li>\n<li>Germany July import prices +6.8% y\/y<\/li>\n<li>Prior +6.1%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Import prices in Germany continue to pick up, with the annual estimate now rising to 6.8%. The main culprit continues to be energy prices, which has surged higher compared to last year due to the US-Iran conflict. But even so, we are seeing spillover impact to the likes of raw materials and metals. So, that is also raising overall import prices compared to a year ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Even if excluding energy prices, German import prices in July this year are still seen up 4.8% compared to July last year. And on the month itself, import prices are up 0.1% in July compared to June after excluding energy prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">For some context, import prices for energy are up 26.4% compared to a year ago and import prices for the likes of\u00a0non-ferrous metals and their semi-finished products are up 26.0% compared to a year ago. So, those are two key categories in which are seeing a major discrepancy to how conditions were last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Looking at the monthly breakdown, we can see import prices for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intermediate goods -0.5%<\/li>\n<li>Energy +1.3%<\/li>\n<li>Capital goods +0.4%<\/li>\n<li>Consumer goods +0.2%<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural goods +2.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany July import prices +0.2% m\/m Prior -0.7% Germany July import prices +6.8% y\/y Prior +6.1% Import prices in Germany continue to pick up, with the annual estimate now rising to 6.8%.&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-437095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437095","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=437095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}