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Table 1 Manufacturing: Principal statistics

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics
  May 2009 April 2010r May 2010p April to May 2010 May 2009 to May 2010
  Seasonally adjusted
  $ millions % change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 38,488 44,639 44,839 0.4 16.5
Manufacturing sales (2002 constant dollars) 36,174 41,296 41,445 0.4 14.6
Manufacturing sales excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories (current dollars) 34,988 39,092 39,068 -0.1 11.7
Inventories 62,792 58,901 58,506 -0.7 -6.8
Unfilled orders 58,648 52,691 53,396 1.3 -9.0
Unfilled orders excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 57,850 52,026 52,740 1.4 -8.8
New orders 34,047 44,437 45,545 2.5 33.8
New orders excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 30,626 38,728 39,782 2.7 29.9
Inventory-to-sales ratio 1.63 1.32 1.30 ... ...
revised
preliminary
not applicable
Percent change calculated at thousands of dollars for current dollars, and millions of dollars for constant dollars.