Price development
(55) The investigation showed that the Community producers' average selling price of CCM rose by 7 % from 1994 to the IP. The Community industry's sales prices reached a peak in 1996 due to the high demand of the market in that year. While the prices for agricultural CCM increased during the IIP by 13 %, the sales prices for CCM used for industrial purposes rose by 6 %. However, whereas the prices for agricultural CCM showed a relatively stable development after the peak in 1996, prices for CCM used for industrial purposes dropped by 5 %.
Price evolution and total sales value
It was established that weighted average sales prices of the Community industry had dropped by almost 8 % from 1992 to the investigation period. The favourable development of sales volume was therefore not fully reflected in terms of turnover: the value of sales in the Community market increased by only 23 %.
