In October 2025, Italy experienced a significant deceleration in its annual industrial producer inflation, which dropped to 0.1% from the previous month's rate of 1.1%. This marks the lowest level recorded since November 2024. Domestic producer prices registered a modest increase of 0.2%, a decline from the 1.5% rise observed in September. This change was primarily driven by notable price hikes in basic pharmaceutical products (2.4%), metallurgy, and other manufacturing sectors (1.8%), which were nearly balanced out by decreases in electricity and gas prices (-1.0%).
In the foreign market, producer prices saw an uptick of 0.4%, with the Euro area experiencing a 0.6% increase and the non-Euro area witnessing a 0.3% rise. Within the Euro area, the largest price increases were seen in transportation equipment (5.0%) and in food, beverages, and tobacco products (4.2%). Outside the Euro area, other manufacturing industries reported a significant increase of 4.8%. When energy prices are excluded, the annual increase in producer prices stands at 0.7%. On a month-to-month comparison, industrial producer prices declined by 0.2%, following a 0.2% rise in September, which was chiefly attributed to reduced energy costs.
