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HRS §490:2-724

Using published market prices as evidence

This section lets courts accept published market prices from official reports, trade journals, or newspapers as evidence. You can question how the report was made, but that only affects how much weight it gets, not whether it's allowed.

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The statute, as written — Admissibility of market quotations

Whenever the prevailing price or value of any goods regularly bought and sold in any established commodity market is in issue, reports in official publications or trade journals or in newspapers or periodicals of general circulation published as the reports of such market shall be admissible in evidence. The circumstances of the preparation of such a report may be shown to affect its weight but not its admissibility.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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