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US merchant wholesale sales

817455

millions of current USD, seasonally adjusted

Reference period: 2026-08
Date meaning: first day of reference month; not a publication date
Retrieved at (UTC): 2026-10-17T13:30:52.322Z
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U.S. Census Bureau, MWTS. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

US merchant wholesalers, excluding manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, category 42, Census Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS). Sales (SM) and end-of-month inventories (IM), seasonally adjusted millions of current US dollars, not inflation-adjusted volume. Monthly reference period start is not publication time. Estimates can be revised. A rolling six-month source query selects only the latest valid observation; no historical import. Private operator API key is never exposed in public JSON or source URLs. Checked once per 24 hours; stale after 120 days from reference-month start. Public dataset metadata lists CC0: https://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/eits/mwts.json . Terms: https://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html .

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What this measure means

Merchant wholesale sales during reference month

Coverage: United States
Kind of measure: monetary flow
Adjustment: seasonally adjusted
Index base: Not applicable

Millions of current USD; sales are a monthly flow, inventories an end-month stock.
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