Manufacturing and Trade Inventory and Sales At a Glance
- Sales: $1,163.5 billion
- Monthly Change: Up 1.5%
- Year-to-year Change: Up 8.6%
- Inventories: $1,457.9 billion
- Monthly Change: Up 0.8%
- Inventory-to-sales ratio: 1.25
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MANUFACTURING AND TRADE INVENTORIES AND SALES
January 2008
Sales.The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for January, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,163.5 billion, up 1.5 percent (±0.3%) from December 2007 and up 8.6 percent (±0.3%) from January 2007.
Inventories. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,457.9 billion, up 0.8 percent (±0.1%) from December 2007 and up 4.8 percent (±0.4%) from January 2007.
Inventories/Sales Ratio. The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of January was 1.25. The January 2007 ratio was 1.30.
Manufacturing and Trade Inventory and Sales - January 2008 [PDF]
Source: Commerce Department, Census Bureau
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