Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
April 2019 |
March 2020r |
April 2020p |
March to April 2020 | April 2019 to April 2020 | |
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millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 57,779 | 50,886 | 36,365 | -28.5 | -37.1 |
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 53,172 | 48,180 | 35,638 | -26.0 | -33.0 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 50,442 | 45,977 | 36,078 | -21.5 | -28.5 |
Inventories | 88,344 | 88,370 | 87,799 | -0.6 | -0.6 |
Unfilled orders | 100,117 | 99,648 | 98,412 | -1.2 | -1.7 |
New orders | 57,849 | 51,164 | 35,128 | -31.3 | -39.3 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.53 | 1.74 | 2.41 | ... | ... |
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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