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Manufacturing Leads the Way in E-Commerce;
Census Bureau Releases E-Business Report for 2000
The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released a snapshot of
e-commerce activity for key sectors of the U.S. economy for 2000, showing
U.S. manufacturing leading all industry sectors with $777 billion in
e-commerce shipments. The report also revises previously-released data
for 1999.
The E-Stats report covers the value of goods and services sold online,
whether over open networks such as the Internet or proprietary networks
such as Electronic Data Interchange.
The findings cover manufacturing, merchant wholesale trade, retail trade
and selected service industries.
The report is available on the Internet at http://www.census.gov/estats.
available free from Adobe.
