Measures of Prices and Price Competitiveness in International Trade in Manufactured Goods

摘要: The purpose of this paper is to present, and explain the construction of, a set price indexes relating international trade in manufactured goods. These include: 1. Indexes export prices for U.S., Germany, Japan, based on their weights, competitors' each those countries sane weights; 2. domestic U. S., Japan 3. developed country exports manufactures weights developing total manufactures, sets weights. make use method estimating missing that takes account not only contemporaneous changes same within community groups, but also particular commodity other countries. Comparisons are made between movements early late base years. In addition, an attempt correct quality some goods usually taken measures or import prices.