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August 2026

Other beverage materials including tea price index

The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures the change in what households pay for other beverage materials including tea. The figures below are for the month of August 2026.

167.143index level, August 2026
+0.45%change over 12 months
+1.15%change over 1 month

Last 24 months

MonthIndex (1982–84=100)Change from previous month
August 2024162.541+1.73%
September 2024161.153-0.85%
October 2024159.959-0.74%
November 2024160.124+0.10%
December 2024160.980+0.53%
January 2025161.974+0.62%
February 2025162.740+0.47%
March 2025161.666-0.66%
April 2025164.657+1.85%
May 2025164.863+0.13%
June 2025164.005-0.52%
July 2025163.955-0.03%
August 2025166.396+1.49%
September 2025163.833-1.54%
November 2025168.740not available
December 2025167.047-1.00%
January 2026162.293-2.85%
February 2026168.012+3.52%
March 2026163.147-2.90%
April 2026163.876+0.45%
May 2026167.238+2.05%
June 2026163.469-2.25%
July 2026165.244+1.09%
August 2026167.143+1.15%

What an index is

Each index is a price level for one kind of food, scaled so that the average for 1982–84 equals 100. Because the starting point is arbitrary, read an index by its change over time, not by comparing the level of one item against another.

A change of +0.45% over 12 months means the index stood at 166.396 in August 2025 and moved to 167.143 in August 2026. Where a month has no value, the table says not available; no figure here is estimated.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted. Data month: August 2026. Record: series CUUR0000SEFP02, item code SEFP02.