Translation of "Rückläufige preise" in English

Declining rates of school enrollment may be expected to increase young people's labor-force participation rates.

However, the price decline also provides a good opportunity to finally build up stocks.

Both price indices, i.e. plasticker and EUWID, show falling prices.

Plastics recyclers are setting their hopes on a further fall in processing input prices.

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The lower earnings were largely the result of increases in raw material and energy costs and a slight drop in selling prices.

We project declining prices for our four key raw materials – silicon metal, vinyl acetate monomer, ethylene and methanol.

When examining the relevant economic factors from 2001, it emerges that, contrary to the above submissions, but as found already by the Commission in its provisional findings (recitals 135 and 146 of the provisional Regulation), the Community industry did show a significant decrease in profit, price depression and a significant loss in market share, especially from 2002 and during the IP.

Argentina is vulnerable to external shocks such as declining agricultural commodity prices because Argentina failed to develop a diversified export sector, one in which a broad range of industrial and service sectors are internationally competitive.

It was also alleged by the same company that the price decrease on the Community market is due to the fact that the CD-R life cycle reached a mature stage characterised by decreasing prices and the decreasing cost of production and additional competitors on the market.

This deterioration included, inter alia, a decline in sales and price levels of the Community production sold in the Community during the same period.

The shipbuilding sector is a very cyclical market which in the past regularly faced periods of over-capacity and depressed prices.

The average real price of vegetables was slightly down on the previous year's level (-0.6% for EU-15), with the three main producer countries plus six other Member States recording a fall in prices.

In other Member States, prices continued to decline with the pressure of cheap imports often a factor.

Only in Denmark, Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom did prices decline on average over the year (in the United Kingdom, however, they fell by almost 15%).

The latest data available (in national currencies for the summer of 1993) showed prices actually falling in the Benelux countries and Germany.

Strong increases in the real output value of cereals (+28%, due to higher volumes) and of pigs (+20%, due mainly to higher prices) compensate only partly, on the level of overall output, for the falls in the real output values of olive oil (-25%), olives (-26%) and fresh fruit (-22%), which are in all cases the result of lower volumes and prices.

For milk, the price index continued to decline in both nominal terms (-1.4%) and real terms (-3.0%).

Thanks to increased competition, one positive consequence of the liberalisation of network industries in Europe is declining prices.

However, this is only if not overtaken by a higher decrease of output prices (and vice versa).

Activities that have traditionally displayed falling prices, for example, office machinery or radio, television and communications equipment, continued to do so into the first quarter of 2002, with quarter on quarter price reductions of 0.6%.

When comparing with the same quarter of a year before, the energy sector was again the only MIG to report that prices fell (down by 3.7% in the EU and by 2.9% in the euro-zone between the third quarters of 2001 and 2002).

Problems associated with the reces­sion were compounded by depressed prices in many of the in­dustry's sub-sectors.

Seven out of 10 countries have negative net price effects, whereas for EUR 10 as a whole, the change in real agricultural income due to price changes was slightly positive, since the effect of price falls in intermediate consumption compensated for falls in producer prices.

In contrast, the downward trend in the price of CO2 emission certificates continued during the reporting period.

Other contributory factors were high product inventories in the distribution channels and lower prices for major agricultural commodities such as wheat and corn.