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The U.S. Census Bureau is updating its economic indicator release calendar in coordination with other agencies and the Office of Management and Budget to address the impacts of the recent lapse in federal funding. We will provide the updated release schedule as soon as it becomes available.

The August 2025 release for Monthly Wholesale Trade Report, originally scheduled for October 9, 2025, has been rescheduled for release on November 21, 2025. For more information, see the Economic Indicators Release Schedule.


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Monthly Wholesale Trade

The Monthly Wholesale Trade report provides national estimates of monthly sales, inventories, and inventories-to-sales ratios by kind of business for wholesale firms located in the United States (excluding manufacturers’ sales branches and offices). Data from this survey provide business leaders and policymakers with an up-to-date picture of the nation’s economic condition, and are a key element in estimating the quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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Monthly Wholesale Real Dollar Estimates - The Census Bureau has released the monthly wholesale real dollar estimates of sales and inventories as an experimental data product. The estimates can be viewed on the Data page or at Monthly Wholesale Real Dollar Estimates.

API - The URL for the economic indicators data in the Census Bureau API (Application Programming Interface) has been updated to add /timeseries/. Examples can be found on the Developers’ webpage.

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