DOMESTIC FINAL SALES

   Domestic final sales are a measure of gross domestic product, excluding additions to stocks and net international trade. It is a way of measuring how much is produced and actually consumed within a country, so it excludes production added to inventories and not immediately consumed. It also excludes the effects of a net trade deficit, because those goods have come from abroad, or a net trade surplus, because those goods have been exported abroad and not consumed at home.

   ► See also Balance of Trade, GDP.