Home improvement building materials or mid-year prices

From February 20 onwards, the national railway freight rate increased from 11.51 cents per ton-kilometer to 13.01 cents, up 1.5 cents, and the increase rate was nearly 13%, far exceeding market expectations. After a lapse of 4 days, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a notice and decided to raise the retail prices of domestic refined oil from the early hours of February 25th. Lanzhou No. 97 gasoline once again returned to “8 times” and rose to 8.04 yuan per liter.

Subsequently, major logistics companies have stated that they will increase the transportation price due to the impact of both. Since then, industry analysts have analyzed that the increase in the cost of railways and road transport will inevitably affect the prices of products that rely on the transportation of both products. Then, in terms of the city, the price of home-improvement building products, which basically depends on the input of products from outside, was investigated by the reporter.

On February 27th, there were few consumers in Xigu ceramics market just after the completion of the year. Speaking of the increase in costs caused by the increase in shipping costs, Hong Tao Ceramics Manager Cao said: “The price of train containers shipped was 1,500 yuan a year ago. After the increase in freight rates, the price was 1,520 yuan.” Compared to the increase in train freight The increase in the cost of road transport caused by the rise in oil costs is even more concerned by Cao's manager. “The price of a one-off motor vehicle has increased by 400 yuan.” said Cao.

How does the cost increase as an end retailer fall between 8% and 13%? Mr. Wang, who has been engaged in the decorative building materials industry for many years, frankly stated that price increases are imperative. “From the past, as long as the increase in transportation costs will inevitably cause product prices to rise, this is not only in the building materials industry, but also in other industries,” said Mr. Wang. Subsequently, the reporter learned from a number of building materials dealers that, due to the increase in transportation costs, Lanzhou decorative building materials prices this year is imperative. The increase ranged from 8% to 13% depending on the product type. For a single product, tile products rose around 8%, solid wood doors, windows, wood floors, furniture, etc., at about 13%.

Although major building materials distributors all claimed price increases, for now, the renovation market price has not changed much. The prices of ceramic tile, solid wood flooring and other products are basically the same as last year. There are industry analysts, in recent years, the prevalence of paperback, decoration industry is sluggish. Except for some dealers holding a cautious price increase with a conservative wait-and-see attitude, it is not ruled out that there is a case of selling low-priced goods at the beginning of the year. "Commodity price increases will be concentrated in May and June," the source said.