Measures output in the wholesale industry as the addition to the price of a product when the product is sold through wholesale trade. Wholesale margin includes sales and excise taxes collected by the wholesaler. Wholesale margin is calculated when the wholesaler buys and then resells the product. It is calculated as sales less the cost of the goods sold. There are also non-margin types of wholesale output – for example, commissions or expenses of manufacturers’ sales offices. (BEA)

Matrix that shows the consumption of commodities by each industry or final user. The entries in a row represent the dollar value of the commodity consumed by each industry or final user. The total output of each commodity is the sum of all intermediate uses of the commodity by industries and all sales to final users, or the sum of the row entries. The entries in a column represent the dollar value of each commodity and value-added component used by the industry. The total output of each industry is the sum of all intermediate uses of all commodities and value added, or the sum of the column entries. For the economy as a whole, the total of all final uses of commodities equals the sum of all value added by all industries, or GDP. Use tables are produced for industries both before redefinitions and after redefinitions. It is one of the two primary tables in the I-O accounts. The use table, together with the make table, is used to derive the I-O total requirements tables. (BEA)

Current transfers consist of all transfers that are not transfers of capital; they directly affect the level of disposable income and should influence the consumption of goods or services. (SNA)

The combined wholesale and retail trade margins, including taxes collected by wholesalers and retailers. For further explanation, see “wholesale margin” and “retail margin.” (BEA)

Three I-O tables showing the output required to meet a given level of final use. The three tables are the commodity-by-commodity total requirements table, the industry-by-commodity total requirements table, and the industry-by-industry total requirements table. All three tables are calculated from the supplementary make and use tables. (See also “Output multipliers”) (BEA)