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Manufacturing and trade inventories and sales, March 2024
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for March 2024. The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for March, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,858.0 billion, down 0.1 percent (±0.2 percent)* from February 2024 and was up 2.1 percent (±0.4 percent) from March 2023. Inventories Manufacturers’ and trade inventories for March, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $2,539.0 billion, down 0.1 ... (full story)