Producer prices rose 1% from a month earlier, after a 0.7% increase in June, the statistics data showed.
Prices in the utility sector were up 4% on the month in July, while manufacturing industry prices were up 1.2%. Prices in the mining sector rose 1% on the month, but energy prices fell 0.2% compared with June.
Compared with the same month of 2010, industrial prices rose 9.3% in July, boosted by higher prices in all sectors.
Utility prices increased 11.1% in July from the year-earlier month, while prices in the manufacturing and energy sectors rose by 10.6% and 4.2% on the year, respectively. Mining industry prices were up 3.8% in July compared with the same period of 2010.