Primary Metals Value of Shipments (advance estimate; not seasonally adjusted; USD million) - United States - Census - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Advance manufacturing survey (U.S. Census)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. On a sesonally unadjusted basis, in the United States, shipments of primary metals stood at 24.40 USD billion in November 2025, versus 27.75 in October. This constitutes a reduction of 12.07 percent.
Sample. There are 407 observations in the monthly time series shown in the graph above. The time period covered by the series goes from January 1992 to November 2025.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: shipments reached a maximum of 29.84 billion US dollars in March 2022; they reached a minimum of 9.09 in December 1992; they had a mean of 17.92.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollars (USD) million |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 27684.0 |
| 2025-10-31 | 27750.0 |
| 2025-11-30 | 24404.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Primary Metals Value of Shipments |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Nominal aggregate |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Rescaling | None |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | US dollars (USD) million |
| Source | U.S. Census Bureau |
| Source type | National statistical agency |
| Data licence | Open Data |
| Measure type | Level |
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