A striking economic shift over the past few decades has been the growing substitution of imports for products once sourced from domestic producers. This shift in sourcing has presented measurement challenges for national economic accountants, researchers, and others. For the U.S. import price indexes, any price reductions that buyers realize by switching to a foreign source would indeed be out of scope, which some say has led to an upward bias in measures of real output growth and productivity growth.
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