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The statistic shows U.S. e-commerce sales from 2000 to 2012. In 2009, e-commerce spending in the United States amounted to 209 billion U.S. dollars, a 2 percent loss from the previous year. E-commerce sales recovered in 2010 and continued to grow to 256 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, the majority of which were accumulated through retail e-commerce sales that year.