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Chemical Shipments Show Little Change

July 9, 2007 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 28


The value of U.S. chemical shipments, according to seasonally adjusted data from the Commerce Department, was up slightly in May from year-earlier levels, but down from the previous month. The data show shipments of all chemicals in May totaled $53 billion, up 0.5% from April, but down 0.9% from the comparable month in 2006. The inventories-to-shipments ratio for all chemicals was 1.18, the same as it had been in the previous month, but higher than the 1.15 recorded a year earlier.

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