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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales

U.S. Census Bureau 

Sales. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for August, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,304.1 billion, up 0.2 percent (±0.2%)* from July 2016, but was virtually unchanged (±0.5%)* from August 2015.

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Inventories. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,816.9 billion, up 0.2 percent (±0.1%) from July 2016 and were up 0.7 percent (±0.6%) from August 2015.

Inventories/Sales Ratio. The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of August was 1.39. The August 2015 ratio was 1.38.

 

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