The table below shows the E- Commerce Sales estimates in millions of dollars of Merchant Wholesalers . The data is based on the Annual Wholesale trade survey from 1998 - 2014 . Time Types of Business Year Apparel , Piece Paper and Paper Goods & Notions Products ( Sales ( Sales in millions of in millions of dollars dollars ) 1998 7, 648 2, 861 1999 10, 629 3 , 622 2000 13, 534 4. 501 2001 16, 789 5 , 455 2002 19 , 788 6, 938 2003 24 , 274 9, 582 2004 26, 989 1 1 , 818 2005 32 , 516 13, 861 2006 31512 16, 348 2007 31 , 626 17, 321 2008 31 , 491 18, 148 2009 29 , 457 18, 212 2010 33, 973 19, 941 2011 35 , 243 20. 835 2012 36, 810 23, 468 2013 39 , 584 24, 81 1 2014 40 , 020 26, 437