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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Inflation in American Samoa “continues to gradually ease back down” and is “now at 5.6%”, according to the First Quarter of calendar year 2023 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released last week by the Statistical Division of the Commerce Department. “As such, freight...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Four food items increased in price in the fourth quarter of 2022, while the cost for a case of chicken for the same quarter — October to December 2022 — declined, according to the 4th Quarter 2022 Consumer Price Index (CPI) released last week by the Commerce Department’s...
Sen. Togiola Tulafono
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — For the first three quarters of calendar year 2022, “inflation in American Samoa has been in the double digits, peaking in the 3rd [quarter] at 13.5%,” according to the Fourth Quarter 2022 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released this week by the Commerce Department’s...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —  A Commerce Department “Special Inquiry on the cost of general goods and services in Manu’a” has found that no turkey tails were sold in Manu’a, where the prices of, “Sin items, i.e. alcohol and cigarettes cost were about 50% higher in Manu’a” compared to Tutuila. “...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The “high cost of wine and beer” contributed to increase in the Alcoholic Beverage Group during the second quarter of 2019, according to the Consumer Price Index report for the second quarter released last month by the Commerce Department. According to the report, the...
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Pago Pago,AMERICAN SAMOA —The Commerce Department’s Basic Food Index (BFI) for October has confirmed what some consumers have told Samoa News last month that there was a drop in the price of certain popular food items such as turkey tail and chicken legs. And the price decrease came at the perfect...