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The Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales estimates are based on data from three surveys: the Monthly Retail Trade Survey, the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey, and the Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey. The purpose of this report is to provide broad and timely measures of combined changes in domestic retail trade, wholesale trade and manufacturers' activities. It provides the only source of monthly data on total business activities of retail trade, wholesale trade, and manufacturers.

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Notice of Revision - Revised historical data from the Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey were released on May 16, 2025. These revisions result from: benchmarking the M3 shipments and inventories data to the 2022 Economic Census (EC) data on a 2017 NAICS basis, as well as to revised ASM data from 2018 through 2021, resulting from benchmarking the ASM to the 2022 Economic Census. Revisions to the Manufacturing estimates are reflected in this release.

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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