date:Nov 09, 2017
The consumer price index (CPI) in Taiwan last month declined 0.32 percent from a year earlier as vegetable, fruit and other goods prices fell significantly, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said yesterday.
Food costs, which comprise 25 percent of the reading, dropped 3.86 percent, due mainly to cheaper vegetables, fruits and eggs, the agency said in a report.
In the first 10 months of this year, the CPI edged up 0.59 percent, it added.
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