--- 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: Monthly Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders indicators_covered: ["Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense"] --- # Monthly Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:** Tuesday, April 07, 2026 **Publication date:** April 07, 2026 **CB 26-59** 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. ### Additional Release Materials - [Table 1 - Shipments and New Orders (PDF)](/manufacturing/m3/adv/pdf/table1a.pdf) - [Table 1 - Shipments and New Orders (XLSX)](/manufacturing/m3/adv/table1a.xlsx) ### Table 1. Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments and New Orders Table 1. Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments and New Orders 1 [Estimates are shown in millions of dollars and are based on data from the Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey.] Seasonally Adjusted Item Monthly Not Seasonally Adjusted Monthly Percent Change Feb 2026 2 Jan 2026 r Dec 2025 Jan Feb 2 DecJan r Nov Dec New Orders4………………………… 319,215 315,501 315,052 319,885 312,260 321,342 1.3 -1.4 0.9 -0.5 Excluding transportation: Shipments………………………….. New Orders4………………………… 213,360 209,363 210,840 207,681 209,730 206,966 1.2 0.8 New Orders4………………………… 298,990 297,085 295,261 300,745 292,634 300,099 Manufacturing with unfilled orders: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 222,074 223,370 220,045 229,820 Primary metals: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 28,648 28,619 Fabricated metal products: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… Year to Date Percent Change 2026/2025 Feb 2026 2 Jan 2026 r Feb 2025 2026 1.2 -0.9 300,824 296,529 282,452 294,254 279,465 276,587 583,276 590,783 549,459 546,612 6.2 8.1 0.5 0.3 1.0 1.2 199,348 198,638 192,674 194,871 188,196 186,833 392,022 393,509 374,637 373,732 4.6 5.3 1.3 -1.2 0.9 0.2 1.1 -1.9 281,058 280,682 265,210 277,842 263,504 261,374 546,268 558,524 519,295 518,638 5.2 7.7 218,121 232,232 0.9 -2.8 0.9 -1.0 1.5 -1.5 209,808 210,416 198,945 216,041 193,537 195,444 408,753 426,457 382,165 389,424 7.0 9.5 28,002 27,990 27,740 27,677 2.3 2.2 0.9 1.1 2.8 2.3 27,723 28,607 27,050 27,652 25,166 26,045 54,773 56,259 50,533 52,044 8.4 8.1 42,586 42,789 42,193 42,565 41,899 42,574 0.9 0.5 0.7 0.0 0.9 0.9 40,425 41,274 39,352 40,918 38,078 39,116 79,777 82,192 76,279 78,407 4.6 4.8 Machinery: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 40,392 41,101 39,930 40,498 40,038 40,255 1.2 1.5 -0.3 0.6 1.2 0.2 37,905 39,831 35,866 38,784 35,323 36,301 73,771 78,615 69,430 73,487 6.3 7.0 Computers and electronic products4: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 33,089 28,164 32,799 28,161 32,273 27,945 0.9 0.0 1.6 0.8 0.8 3.4 30,317 25,082 29,488 25,175 28,468 23,350 59,805 50,257 56,448 46,362 5.9 8.4 Computers and related products: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 2,847 2,879 2,725 2,745 2,652 2,611 4.5 4.9 2.8 5.1 1.3 1.0 2,403 2,435 2,424 2,444 1,918 1,960 4,827 4,879 3,974 4,042 21.5 20.7 Communications equipment: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 4,362 4,241 4,347 4,254 4,128 4,269 0.3 -0.3 5.3 -0.4 0.0 7.6 3,696 3,528 3,472 3,788 3,111 3,298 7,168 7,316 6,014 6,136 19.2 19.2 Electrical equipment, appliances, and components: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 18,152 18,316 17,858 18,330 17,858 18,520 1.6 -0.1 0.0 -1.0 0.9 1.9 16,858 17,510 15,897 17,057 15,958 16,408 32,755 34,567 31,507 32,501 4.0 6.4 Transportation equipment: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 105,855 106,138 104,212 112,204 102,530 114,376 1.6 -5.4 1.6 -1.9 1.6 -4.6 101,476 97,891 89,778 99,383 91,269 89,754 191,254 197,274 174,822 172,880 9.4 14.1 Motor vehicles and parts: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 70,965 70,791 68,890 68,658 68,304 68,152 3.0 3.1 0.9 0.7 1.3 1.5 69,044 69,864 60,897 61,187 62,631 63,685 129,941 131,051 120,052 121,501 8.2 7.9 Nondefense aircraft and parts: Shipments………………………….. 17,196 18,229 16,970 -5.7 7.4 5.2 14,998 14,126 13,506 29,124 25,932 12.3 New Orders………………………… 19,240 26,955 27,432 -28.6 -1.7 -22.7 13,895 24,116 11,200 38,011 23,643 60.8 Defense aircraft and parts: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 5,463 4,907 5,513 5,102 5,539 7,007 -0.9 -3.8 -0.5 -27.2 2.1 11.8 5,147 4,031 4,773 5,510 4,804 5,549 9,920 9,541 9,170 10,426 8.2 -8.5 All other durable goods: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 50,493 50,374 50,058 50,137 49,922 49,995 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 46,120 46,334 45,021 45,285 45,203 45,613 91,141 91,619 90,440 90,931 0.8 0.8 Capital goods3: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 108,194 108,818 108,272 116,446 106,947 120,070 -0.1 -6.6 1.2 -3.0 2.0 -3.2 100,582 97,268 93,941 105,931 91,962 89,108 194,523 203,199 178,889 178,307 8.7 14.0 Nondefense capital goods: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 90,855 92,885 91,334 100,330 90,129 101,296 -0.5 -7.4 1.3 -1.0 1.9 -6.7 83,541 84,129 79,348 92,716 78,507 78,114 162,889 176,845 153,792 157,482 5.9 12.3 Excluding aircraft: Shipments……………………… New Orders…………………….. 79,449 79,427 78,751 78,965 78,767 79,262 0.9 0.6 0.0 -0.4 1.0 0.8 74,349 76,055 70,757 74,215 70,131 72,048 145,106 150,270 138,123 144,202 5.1 4.2 Defense capital goods: Shipments………………………….. New Orders………………………… 17,339 15,933 16,938 16,116 16,818 18,774 2.4 -1.1 0.7 -14.2 2.7 21.6 17,041 13,139 14,593 13,215 13,455 10,994 31,634 26,354 25,097 20,825 26.0 26.5 2025 DURABLE GOODS Total: Shipments………………………….. Excluding defense: Shipments………………………….. r Revised data due to late receipts and concurrent seasonal adjustment. 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 . 1