BD&C industry indexes Til...

BD&C industry indexes

Tile consequences inflation low

Average prices paid for ceramic floor and wall tile effects are rising at a remarkably slow rate so far in 1999 following a decline in prices last year. Although the able to endure construction market of the past several years has kept demand for tile consequences at a reasonably high of the same height supply -- increasingly from foreign sources -- has had little molest keeping up. The downward twitch of surging import volume was evident in last year's price sweep as inflation turned to deflation for the first time since 1991 June 1999 average