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Table 1 Manufacturing: Principal statistics

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics
	August 2009	July 2010^r	August 2010^p	July to August 2010	August 2009 to August 2010
	Seasonally adjusted
	$ millions			% change¹
Manufacturing sales (current dollars)	40,846	44,191	45,074	2.0	10.3
Manufacturing sales (2002 constant dollars)	38,158	40,962	41,811	2.1	9.6
Manufacturing sales excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories (current dollars)	36,309	38,907	39,350	1.1	8.4
Inventories	61,155	59,239	60,023	1.3	-1.9
Unfilled orders	54,752	53,847	54,663	1.5	-0.2
Unfilled orders excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories	54,072	53,164	53,998	1.6	-0.1
New orders	38,389	43,578	45,891	5.3	19.5
New orders excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories	33,833	38,282	40,184	5.0	18.8
Inventory-to-sales ratio	1.50	1.34	1.33	...	...

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