The Advance Economic Indicators Report provides advance statistics for U.S. International Trade in Goods, domestic retail inventories, and domestic wholesale inventories. The data for U.S. International Trade in Goods are compiled in terms of commodity classification, quantities, values, shipping weights, method of transportation (air or vessel), state of (movement) origin, customs district, customs port, country of destination, and whether contents are domestic goods or re-exports. For Monthly Wholesale Trade and Monthly Retail Trade, entities provide data on dollar values of merchant wholesale end-of-month inventories and retail end-of-month inventories respectively.
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Intention to Revise: Revisions to the Wholesale and Retail adjusted and not adjusted monthly estimates are scheduled for release in March 2024 and April 2024, respectively. Estimates will be revised to reflect the results of the 2022 Annual Wholesale and Annual Retail Trade Surveys. Revisions to the Monthly Wholesale estimates will be reflected in the February 2024 Advance Economic Indicators release scheduled for March 29, 2024. Revisions to the Monthly Retail estimates will be reflected in the March 2024 Advance Economic Indicators release scheduled for April 25, 2024.
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.