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Dutch container shipping to and from the Netherlands cost nearly 4 percent less in the fourth quarter of 2008 than in the previous quarter. The main reasons for this were decreasing demand, excess...

Inflation in the Netherlands was 1.9 percent in January, the same as in December 2008.

The average price increase of manufactured products was 7.2 percent last year relative to 2007. This is the most substantial price increase in the span of 8 years.

In the third quarter of 2008, prices of commercial services were 2.7 percent up on one year previously, the largest price increase in two years.

In October 2008, retail turnover grew by 5.0 percent relative to the same month last year. The prices went up by 2.6 percent, volume by 2.4 percent.

5 December and Christmas invariably boost toy sales in the last month of the year. In recent years, Dutch consumers bought approximately 40 percent of all toys sold annually in the last quarter.

Turnover realised by the sector hotels and restaurants declined by nearly 1 percent in the third quarter of 2008 relative to the same period last year. The last time the sector reported a downturn in...

Inflation was 3.2 percent in August.