Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  April
2017		 March
2018r		 April
2018p		 March to April 2018 April 2017 to April 2018
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 54,282 56,950 56,231 -1.3 3.6
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) 51,042 52,853 51,856 -1.9 1.6
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 46,100 48,922 48,088 -1.7 4.3
Inventories 74,885 79,446 81,188 2.2 8.4
Unfilled orders 89,621 88,858 90,013 1.3 0.4
New orders 55,819 58,315 57,385 -1.6 2.8
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.38 1.40 1.44 ... ...
r
revised
p
preliminary
...
not applicable
Source(s):
Tables 16-10-0047-01 and 16-10-0013-01.

Table note 1

Percent change calculated at thousands of dollars for current dollars and millions of dollars for constant dollars.

Table note 2

The inventory-to-sales ratio measures the time in months that it would take to exhaust inventories if sales were to remain at the current rate.
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