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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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.
Intention to Revise
Monthly retail estimates will be revised to reflect historical corrections and will reflect the restated results of the 2022 Annual Retail Trade Survey. Estimates will be restated to incorporate the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) changes. In addition to the 2017 NAICS changes, the restated data will represent employer-only firms to be aligned with the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES) and the Economic Census. For a detailed description of these changes, please see the Restatement Summary. Revisions to the monthly retail estimates will be reflected in the March 2025 Advance Economic Indicators release scheduled for April 29, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. EDT.
Monthly Wholesale sales, inventories, and inventories/sales ratios will be revised to reflect historical corrections, the introduction of the 2017 NAICS, and the results of the 2022 Annual Wholesale Trade Survey. Revised not adjusted and corresponding adjusted estimates are tentatively scheduled to be released on the website on March 25, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Revisions to the Monthly Wholesale estimates will be reflected in the February 2025 Advance Economic Indicators release scheduled for March 27, 2025.
