The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that September 2016 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers' sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $444.9 billion, up 0.2 percent (+/-0.4%) from the revised August level and were up 0.4 percent (+/-1.1%)* from the September 2015 level.

Sales of nondurable goods were up 0.1 percent (+/-0.5%)* from August and were up 0.5 percent (+/-1.2%) from last September. Sales of petroleum and petroleum products were up 5.0 percent from last month, while sales of farm product raw materials were down 12.0 percent.