About The Unit Cost

Operator: The Unit Cost. The tools on The Unit Cost are free.

The Unit Cost is a free weekly email and website about what moved in the cost of making things: materials, freight, energy, labor and equipment.

It reports what changed, by how much, and where the number came from. Most figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau. Recent producer price figures are preliminary, and we label them that way.

It never predicts prices, never tells a shop what to charge, and never treats tariff rules as advice.

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