2  BIS Review 1/2007  With such changes in the environment surrounding prices, year-on-year changes in domestic corporate goods prices rose to around 3.5 percent in mid-2006, reflecting increases in prices of international commodities such as crude oil.
Although the pace of increase has recently been slowing somewhat due to a softening of crude oil prices, it is expected to continue its uptrend if there were no large fluctuations caused by commodity prices and foreign exchange rates.