Consumer prices increase 2.5 percent, imports up 48.4 percent and domestic exports down 5.9 percent in April 2021

Consumer Price Index For the month of April 2021, the All-Items Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 103, an increase from the 100.5 recorded for April 2020. This reflected a national inflation rate of 2.5 percent for the month and indicated that, on average, prices for items comprising the basket of goods and services commonly…