If fuel and food prices are excluded, CPIX inflation declined slightly from 6.8% to 6.6% over the same period. Similarly, the year-on-year  BIS Review 87/2000  4  increase in production prices accelerated from 5.7% in September 1999 to 10.1% in April 2000, and then declined slightly to 9.3% in August 2000.
However, if energy and food priced are omitted, the year-on-year increase in production prices has continued to accelerate from a low of 3.2% in November 1999 to 5.3% in August 2000. This upward trend was mainly due to increases in the prices of imported goods, while domestically generated inflation has shown a declining tendency from April 2000.