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(and generally pay tariffs on), or a dometic manufacturer that uses a lot of imported parts (and generally pay tariffs). I think of both of them as wholesalers (and they are). I suppose the former is left out of the PPI, but the latter is included?, even if the 95% of the cost of the item is the imported parts, and the remaining 5% is assembly done domestically (in the latter case I was thinking of what I heard on NPR - Trump is pressuring Apple to move Iphone manufacturing to the U.S. As it turns out, about 9% of the cost involved in producing an iPhone is the final assembly, and the other 91% is parts that come from all over the world, and it would be way more expensive to make all those parts in the U.S.).

ETA - In the first case, the importer, I'm thinking of a Toyota car dealership. Some of what they sell are imports, and some of what they sell are vehicles manufactured in the U.S. using parts that are mostly made overseas. The former (imports) is not included in any of our wholesale inflation statistics, but the latter is? Seems like a gap I want to know more about.

ETA- Or even a domestic auto dealer that sells only imports is considered a "domestic producer of goods and services", given that there is a considerable amount of work involved in prepping cars for sale, and selling them, certainly both of these are services provided domestically.

I searched the page for "import" and found only this one: