Austria’s consumer price inflation rose in July, driven by higher prices of clothing, data from Statistics Austria showed on Wednesday.
The consumer price index rose 1.7 percent year-on-year in July, following a 1.1 percent climb in June.
Housing, water, energy prices grew 2.3 percent annually in July and prices for restaurants and hotels gained 3.3 percent.
Prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages increased 2.6 percent and those of clothing and footwear rose 3.5 percent.
Prices for message transmission, and transport fell by 2.0 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively.
On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in June.
The EU measure of inflation, which the harmonized index of consumer prices, rose 1.8 percent year-on-year in July, following a 1.1 percent increase in the prior month.
On a month-on-month basis, the HICP fell 0.1 percent in July.
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