Prices in industry in May decreased by 1.3% after an increase of 1.6% in April, 3.5% in March and 3.1% in February.
According to the State Statistics Service, the main reason of the decline was the price drop of metallic ores (by 22%).
In mining and quarrying the product price decrease was 9.8%, while in coal mining it increased by 1.1%.
Processing industry saw a rise of 0.5%, mostly due to the increase of coke prices (by 6.7%), metal and metal wares (by 0.5-0.6%). (Ukrainian metal)