Monthly commodity prices update for August 2025

The monthly update of PricePedia commodity prices for August 2025 has been released. Downward pressures continue to influence European physical quotations, represented by the prices recorded at the customs of EU countries. In the past month, the trend that has characterized prices over the last two and a half years has been confirmed, recording a decrease in euros of -2% compared to July 2025.

The chart below shows the evolution in euro of raw material prices related to the European market for the main PricePedia aggregates: Commodity^[1], Industrials^[2], Energy and Food, with January 2022 levels set equal to 100.

In August as well, all the main aggregates were characterized by monthly decreases, just as occurred in July 2025 (see Monthly commodity prices update for July 2025).

The sharpest drop was recorded by energy commodities, amounting to -3.8% compared to July 2025, in line with the decrease recorded over the same period by the Energy Financial Index developed by PricePedia.
Food commodities also showed a decline in euro prices, equal to -1.8% compared to the previous month, returning to the levels seen at the beginning of the year.
As for industrial commodities, the weak price trend was confirmed: in August 2025 a slight decrease of -0.5% was recorded, marking a new four-year low. Among the factors pushing prices downward, it is worth considering the export prices of Chinese industrial commodities, in euros, which in the first seven months of the year fell by -5.5% compared to the 2024 average, as described in the article Chinese Export Prices of Organic Chemistry Commodities Continue to Decline in Euro Terms.

Industrial commodity prices in August 2025

Prices of the individual categories within the industrial commodities segment mostly showed declines, with few exceptions that never exceeded +1% on a monthly basis.

The chart below shows the month-on-month changes in euro prices of these categories in August 2025 compared to the previous month.

Prices of Pharmaceutical Chemicals recorded the sharpest decline compared to the previous month, amounting to -3.3%, correcting the increases observed in July 2025. Prices of Organic Chemicals also declined, by -1.4% compared to the previous month.
For the remaining categories, changes never exceeded one percentage point in absolute terms, either downward (Plastics and Elastomers, Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals, and Textile Fibers) or upward (Inorganic Chemicals and Wood and Paper).