In 2023, the top producer of Materials and supplies for production, except processed food and beverage inputs for human food manufacturing and food services was California with $1.46T. This is expected to increase 90.8% to $2.78T by 2050. The top consumer was Texas with $1.32T, and those inbound shipments are expected to increase 90.5% to $2.51T by 2050.
Freight data is provided using the SCTG product classification. The closest comparible products are live animals/fish, cereal grains, animal feed, building stone, natural sands, gravel, nonmetallic minerals, metallic ores, crude petroleum, basic chemicals, fertilizers, chemical prods., plastics/rubber, logs, wood prods., newsprint/paper, paper articles, textiles/leather, nonmetal min. prods., base metals, articles-base metal, electronics, precision instruments, misc. mfg. prods., and mixed freight.
In 2023, the most common means of transport for Materials and supplies for production, except processed food and beverage inputs for human food manufacturing and food services, by weight, was Truck with 8.42B tons, followed by Pipeline with 863M tons and Rail with 827M tons.
In 2017, the US government spent $82.5B on Materials and supplies for production, except processed food and beverage inputs for human food manufacturing and food services. The agency which purchased the largest amount of Materials and supplies for production, except processed food and beverage inputs for human food manufacturing and food services in 2017 was Department of the Navy ($38.1B), followed by Defense Logistics ($12.5B) and the Department of the Air Force ($12.4B).
