U.S. online retail sales this year expected to reach 1,720 billion U.S. dollars.

<P> According to the latest report, by cosmetics and jewelry retail sales driven by growth, the U.S. online retail sales this year expected to rise 22% to 1,720 billion U.S. dollars. .</ P> <P> funded by the Shop.org, the market research firm Forrester Research is responsible for the implementation of the study showed that online sales of travel products in the proportion will be the biggest. .Sales of such products is expected to grow by 20% to 62.8 billion. .</ P> <P> report, not including travel products, online sales this year expected to reach 1,096 billion U.S. dollars, total retail sales of 5.5%, respectively, higher than the 89 billion U.S. dollars in 2004 and 4.6% of the two .data. .</ P> <P> report, along with the expansion of the overall data, online sales growth rate will slow down. .More than 22% increase is expected to be lower than last year's 24% and 51% in 2003. .</ P> <P> According to the report predicts the biggest increase in online sales will be cosmetics, jewelry and flowers and other commodities, but three sales of commodities is still relatively small. .Online sales of cosmetics and fragrances are expected to rise 33% to 16 billion U.S. dollars. .The flowers, cards and gift sales are expected to grow 30% to 4.8 billion. .Jewelry and luxury goods sales will grow 28% to 32 billion U.S. dollars. .</ P> <P> </ P>.