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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Notice of Revision: Revisions to the Wholesale estimates were released on March 24, 2023 and are reflected in this release. Revisions to the Retail estimates will be released April 24, 2023 and will be reflected in the March 2023 Advance Economic Indicators Release scheduled for April 26, 2023. Estimates are revised to reflect the results of the 2021 Annual Wholesale and Annual Retail Trade Surveys.
Statement Regarding COVID-19 Impact - The Census Bureau continues to monitor response and data quality and has determined that estimates in this release meet publication standards. For more information, see COVID19 FAQs.
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.
