Import prices were 1.0% lower in September 2025 than in September 2024. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the rate of change was -1.5% in August 2025, and -1.4% in July. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that import prices in September 2025 rose by 0.2% on August 2025. Export prices were 0.6% higher in September 2025 than in September 2024. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the rate of change was +0.5% in August 2025, and +0.6% in July 2025. On average, export prices did not change (0.0%) from August 2025. Energy had the biggest impact on the year-on-year decline in import ... (full story)