Total manufacturing sales increased 1.7% to $73.0 billion in January, mainly on higher sales in the motor vehicle industry group (+11.1%) as well as the petroleum and coal product subsector (+4.7%). Chemical product sales declined the most, down 7.4% to $5.0 billion in January. On a year-over-year basis, total manufacturing sales rose 3.0% in January.
On a constant dollar basis, sales increased 0.9% in January, while the Industrial Product Price Index rose 1.6%.
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