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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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Intention to Revise - Revisions to the Wholesale adjusted and not adjusted monthly estimates for sales and inventories are tentatively scheduled for release on March 25, 2025. Estimates will be revised to reflect historical corrections, the introduction of the 2017 NAICS, and the results of the 2022 Annual Wholesale Trade Survey. Revisions to the Wholesale data will be reflected in the February 2025 Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales release scheduled for April 16, 2025. Retail and Manufacturing estimates will be revised at a later date.

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. Publication tables will be reformatted to incorporate the 2017 NAICS definitions. Revisions to the retail estimates will be reflected in the March 2025 MTIS release scheduled for May 15, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. EDT.

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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