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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales
U.S. total business end-of-month inventories for December 2012 were $1,623.1 billion, up 0.1 percent (+/-0.1%)* from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,274.1 billion, up 0.3 percent (+/-0.2%) from last month.
+0.2

November 2012
% change in inventories
+0.1*

December 2012
% change in inventories


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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Business & Industry | (301)763-2547 | econ@census.gov | Last Revised: October 31, 2012