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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales, September 2023
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for September 2023. The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for September, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,879.3 billion, up 1.1 percent (±0.2 percent) from August 2023 and was up 1.6 percent (±0.2 percent) from September 2022. Inventories Manufacturers’ and trade inventories for September, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $2,559.2 billion, ... (full story)