Madrid (EFE) low.
In this way, industrial prices have sharpened their fall compared to the decrease of 4.5% registered in April and the contraction of 1.4% in March, according to data published this Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). .
Excluding energy, industrial wrecks grew 2.9%, 1.2 points less than the previous month, which represents a gap of almost ten points with respect to the general IPRI.
By economic destination of the goods, the industrial sector with the greatest negative influence on the evolution of the annual rate of the general IPRI was that of energy, which contracted by 24.9% due to the decrease in the prices of petroleum refining by 33 .7%.
Within the energy sector, the price drop of 21.7% of electricity and gas supply also had an influence.
Likewise, the industrial prices of the intermediate goods sector fell, with a contraction of 4%, due to the lower increase in the prices of the manufacture of basic iron, steel and ferroalloy products, and the lower price of the manufacture of basic chemicals, nitrogenous compounds, fertilizers, plastics and synthetic rubber.
To a lesser extent, it included the non-durable consumer goods sector, due to the lower rise in manufacturing prices for dairy products.
In the food industry, prices rose 10.6% and in the manufacture of beverages, 11.8%.
The only sector with upward influence was that of capital goods, with a rise of 3.6%, as a result of the rise in the prices of the manufacture of motor vehicles.