Prices for goods manufactured in the Netherlands were 6.8% higher in August 2026 than a year earlier, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported on 30 September. The annual increase in July was 5.1%. Manufacturing output prices rose 1.1% from July to August; export-market prices increased 1.3% month on month and domestic-market prices 0.8%. The annual comparison tracks a producer output-price index. It is not the same measure as consumer inflation or retail prices.

CBS said crude oil cost nearly €76 a barrel in August, 31% more than a year earlier. In July, the average price of North Sea Brent was over €73 a barrel and almost 24% higher year on year. The agency links the rise in oil prices since March to the geopolitical situation in the Middle East. This does not mean oil explains every change in manufacturing prices: pass-through depends on sector exposure, contracts, inventories and timing.

Output prices for petroleum derivatives rose 59.7% year on year in August, compared with 43.2% in July. Chemical-product prices increased 14.1%, up from 12.2% in July. CBS notes that chemical prices tend to track crude oil, often with a lag. Among the eight manufacturing subsectors in its comparison, rubber and plastics rose 9%, metal products 4.1%, and machinery and cars 1% each. Electronic products fell 0.2%, while food products declined 4.9%.

The spread shows why one headline producer-price rate does not represent cost pressure in every industry equally. Oil and chemicals feed into some industrial supply chains, but an annual movement in the producer-price index is not the same as the input costs, energy contracts or selling prices of every firm. The eight listed subsectors together account for almost 75% of Dutch manufacturing, according to CBS; the comparison is not an exhaustive price for every product. Monthly and annual rates answer different questions.

These figures alone do not establish company profit margins, final consumer prices or next month’s oil price. How much cost pressure reaches customers can vary with fixed or variable contracts, inventory costs, imported-input shares and product mix. CBS provides an official reference for price movements, but the figures are reported manufacturing output prices, not market quotations or forward-price forecasts. August 2026 is the reference period and should remain distinct from the date of publication.