Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| May 2025 |
April 2026r |
May 2026p |
April to May 2026 | May 2025 to May 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 68,843 | 77,104 | 78,093 | 1.3 | 13.4 |
| Manufacturing sales (2017 constant dollars) | 52,513 | 53,765 | 54,009 | 0.5 | 2.8 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 61,795 | 70,053 | 70,583 | 0.8 | 14.2 |
| Inventories | 120,811 | 125,180 | 125,864 | 0.5 | 4.2 |
| Unfilled orders | 110,056 | 123,292 | 131,509 | 6.7 | 19.5 |
| New orders | 68,454E | 78,794E | 86,310E | 9.5 | 26.1 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.75 | 1.62 | 1.61 | ... | ... |
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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