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• US transformer prices showed the 2021 squeeze as it happened, but not its peak or its easing Analysis · 30 October 2026

  A monthly US producer price index for transformers surged with the 2021 lead-time squeeze and showed it months before the first published lead-time figures found. It also fired in 2018 with no squeeze documented in 2019, and missed the peak and the easing.