Australian Packaging Paper Price Index is up 23.5% quarter-ended January. This index shows the weighted average price movements for selected grades of packaging and industrial paper, and for the total of all packaging grades, imported to Australia. Source: IndustryEdge
The table below shows the most recent movements in the IndustryEdge Australian Packaging Paper Trade Price Indexes, based in Australian dollars.
Examining the difference in prices for the quarter ended January 2023, compared with prices a year earlier, the All Packaging index is up 23.5%. Containerboard grade prices increased on average 33.2% across the year, while Cartonboard was up 23.5%, as evident in the charts below.
The charts show the headline indexes in AUD and USD.
Source and attributions for the charts and data are: Source: ABS, derived and IndustryEdge.
IndustryEdge’s Australian Packaging Paper Trade Price Indexes are constructed from raw data detailing all imports of each of the relevant grades of paper for the given period. No adjustment has been made to the original data or to the indexes.
IndustryEdge uses three-month moving average indexes to smooth out monthly movements that can be misleading. These indexes provide a useful and immediate image of the recent trade price trends. The index base is January 2017 = 100.
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