The article explained that, while companies are passing higher resource prices on to their prices, consumer prices have ultimately not risen to the same extent, making it difficult for wage growth to gain momentum as the burden on small and medium-sized companies increases within the subcontracting structure.
An article citing a serialized column in Weekly Playboy analyzed trends in price inflation. It explained that prices in business-to-business transactions had surged by more than 6% year on year, while consumer prices as experienced by households had not risen to the same extent. Companies are said to be passing higher resource costs on to prices, and the graph overlays the manufacturing industry’s cost ratio with mineral fuel import values as a percentage of nominal GDP.
The analysis concluded that companies are absorbing higher resource costs as they arise and that pass-through to prices is progressing. At the same time, it indicated that price increases for essential goods have been limited, and that the impact of higher resource costs is being reflected in the prices set by companies, rather than being attributable to so-called “aliens.”