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Manufacturing and trade inventories and sales, June 2023
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for June 2023. The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for June, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,818.6 billion, down 0.1 percent (±0.2 percent)* from May 2023 and was down 3.1 percent (±0.4 percent) from June 2022. Inventories Manufacturers’ and trade inventories for June, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $2,541.1 billion, virtually unchanged ... (full story)