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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Despite the inflation rate for American Samoa (1. 7%), being one point higher than it was last quarter, eggs have returned to their regular prices following a shortage that had previously caused prices to spike to $6 and up.
Compared to the same quarter last year, when...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The inflation rate for American Samoa at the end of the 2nd Quarter (April-June 2025) is currently 1.6%, which is an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the 1st Quarter. The largest expenditure group this quarter is the Education and Communications Group, accounting...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Food prices are going up, period. The best clue: “It’s the eggs, stupid!”
April’s Basic Food Index (BFI) for American Samoa has experienced an increase of 4.0% from March of this year with the most notable rise in the price of eggs, which surged by 49.5%. The cost of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Prior to the implementation of President Donald Trump’s tariff packages, American Samoa's inflation rate for the first quarter of 2025 is at 1.3%, which reflects a slight increase from last quarter of 2024’s rate of 0.9%. And while airfares to Honolulu have gone down,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There’s some good news for American Samoa’s community, the territory’s inflation rates have plummeted since the high in 2022 during the COVID pandemic. However, the Consumer Price Index for the 3rd Quarter of 2024 (July-Sept.) increased by 0.1% — a slight increase from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa's inflation rate is 1.3%, lower than the previous quarter, but there was still an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The Food Group is once again the leading expenditure group, with an increase of 3.0%.
One of the items that saw an increase of...
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...
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...
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...
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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