High Import Prices along the Global Supply Chain Feed Through to U.S. Domestic Prices

Mary Amiti, Sebastian Heise and Aidan Wang

No 20211108, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: The prices of U.S. imported goods, excluding fuel, have increased by 6 percent since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020. Around half of this increase is due to the substantial rise in the prices of imported industrial supplies, up nearly 30 percent. In this post, we consider the implications of the increase in import prices on U.S. industry inflation rates. In particular, we highlight how rising prices of imported intermediate inputs, like industrial supplies, can have amplified effects through the U.S. economy by increasing the production cost of goods that rely heavily on these inputs.

Keywords: inflation; import prices; inputs; supply chains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 F0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11-08
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