Industrial products index increases

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The industrial products index (2010=100 experimental estimation) in January of this year increased by 2.6% against the previous year, but it decreased by 6.2% against the previous month. The increase was mainly due to 25.1-98.4% increases in the mining and quarrying products such as iron ore, molybdenum with concentrate, copper with concentrate, crude oil; and 7.4% to 4.8 times increases in industrial main products of manufacturing sector such as alcoholic beverage, camel woolen blanket, metal steel, knitted goods, kind of sausage, flour, vacuum windows and doors, electric wire.