Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| March 2025 |
February 2026r |
March 2026p |
February to March 2026 | March 2025 to March 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 71,102 | 71,407 | 73,567 | 3.0 | 3.5 |
| Manufacturing sales (2017 constant dollars) | 53,377 | 52,079 | 52,612 | 1.0 | -1.4 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 63,567 | 64,935 | 66,515 | 2.4 | 4.6 |
| Inventories | 120,348 | 122,557 | 124,180 | 1.3 | 3.2 |
| Unfilled orders | 111,776 | 118,429 | 121,327 | 2.4 | 8.5 |
| New orders | 73,788E | 73,046E | 76,465E | 4.7 | 3.6 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.69 | 1.72 | 1.69 | ... | ... |
r
revised
p
preliminary
...
not applicable
E
use with caution
Source(s):
Tables 16-10-0047-01 and 16-10-0013-01.
Table note 1
Percentage 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 their current rate.
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