--- source: U.S. Census Bureau url: https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/adv/current/index.html document_type: html date_retrieved: 2026-04-07 period: February 2026 parent_publication: Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders indicators_covered: - Durable Goods New Orders (Total) - Durable Goods New Orders ex Transportation - Durable Goods New Orders ex Defense - Durable Goods Shipments --- # Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders ## February 2026 **Release Date:** April 7, 2026 New orders for manufactured durable goods in February, down four of the last five months, decreased $4.4 billion or **1.4 percent** to $315.5 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This followed a 0.5 percent January decrease. Excluding transportation, new orders increased 0.8 percent. Excluding defense, new orders decreased 1.2 percent. Transportation equipment, also down four of the last five months, drove the decrease, $6.1 billion or 5.4 percent to $106.1 billion. ### Table 1. Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments and New Orders (Seasonally Adjusted, Millions of Dollars) | Item | Feb 2026 | Jan 2026 (r) | Dec 2025 | % Change (Jan-Feb) | |------|----------:|-------------:|---------:|-------------------:| | **Shipments** | 319,215 | 315,052 | 312,260 | 1.3% | | **New Orders** | 315,501 | 319,885 | 321,342 | **-1.4%** | | *Excluding transportation:* | | | | | |   Shipments | 213,360 | 210,840 | 209,730 | 1.2% | |   New Orders | 209,363 | 207,681 | 206,966 | 0.8% | | *Excluding defense:* | | | | | |   Shipments | 298,990 | 295,261 | 292,634 | 1.3% | |   New Orders | 297,085 | 300,745 | 300,099 | -1.2% | *Note: r = revised. Percent changes are based on unrounded data. Year-to-date totals and additional breakdowns (including industry-specific data) are available in the full release tables.* --- ### Notes r Revised data due to late receipts and concurrent seasonal adjustment. 1 Estimates of shipments and new orders are for the duration of the period, while estimates of unfilled orders and total inventories are for the end of the period. Not seasonally adjusted estimates of shipments and new orders include adjusted data for non-calendar reporters. Seasonally adjusted estimates include concurrent adjustments for holiday and trading-day differences, where appropriate, as well as seasonal variation, based on the results of the latest annual review of the model parameters. Estimates are not adjusted for price changes. 2 Based on advance sample. Estimates of manufacturers' shipments, inventories, and orders are subject to survey error and revision. One major component of survey error is nonsampling error, which includes errors of coverage, response and nonreporting. Since the survey panel is not a probability sample, estimates of sampling error cannot be calculated. For further details on survey design, methodology, and data limitations, see http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3. 3 The Capital Goods Industries include Nondefense: small arms and ordnance; farm machinery and equipment; construction machinery; mining, oil, and gas field machinery; industrial machinery; vending, laundry, and other machinery; photographic equipment; metalworking machinery; turbines and generators; other power transmission equipment; pumps and compressors; material handling equipment; all other machinery; electronic computers; computer storage devices; other computer peripheral equipment; communications equipment; search and navigation equipment; electromedical, measuring, and control instruments; electrical equipment; other electrical equipment, appliances, and components; heavy duty trucks; aircraft; railroad rolling stock; ships and boats; office and institutional furniture; and medical equipment and supplies. Defense Capital Goods include: small arms and ordnance; communications equipment; aircraft; missiles, space vehicles, and parts; ships and boats; and search and navigation equipment. 4 Estimates and percent changes of shipments and inventories for the semiconductor industry are included in computers and electronic products, and all other applicable aggregate totals. Estimates and percent changes for new orders and unfilled orders exclude semiconductor industry data. The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data (Project No. P-6000307, Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approval number: CBDRB-FY26-0151). Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey, February Advance Report, April 7, 2026. Information on data sources and methodology can be found on our website at .