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Table 30 Manufacturing industries, selected statistics
	1998	2003	2008
	$ millions
Sales	441,153	563,634	598,217
New orders	442,585	554,950	609,754
Annual average
Month-end inventory	51,175	62,303	66,615
Month-end unfilled orders	40,859	36,621	64,672
	ratio
Total inventory to sales	1.40	1.33	1.34
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 304-0014.

Table 31 New motor vehicle production and sales
	1998	2008
	units
Production
Total	2,352,454	2,051,625
Passenger cars	1,302,065	1,632,708
Trucks and vans	1,050,389	418,917
Sales
Total	1,428,932	1,674,145
Manufactured in North America	1,217,923	1,224,561
Manufactured overseas	211,009	449,584
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM tables 079-0003 and 303-0018.