{"version":"1","article":{"id":"us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026","slug":"us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026","language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026?lang=en","title":"US manufacturing orders edge up 0.1% in August","summary":"The Census Bureau said orders rose for a second month while shipments were almost flat after eight months of increases; inventories and backlogs also grew.","category":"economy","region":"world","topics":[],"published_at":"2026-10-04T13:00:07+03:00","modified_at":"2026-10-04T13:00:07+03:00","publication_basis":"publication-record","event_period":"2026-08","event_period_basis":"event-or-reference-period","sources":[{"name":"U.S. Census Bureau, Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey","url":"https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/current/index.html","checkedAt":"2026-10-04","publishedAt":"2026-10-02"},{"name":"U.S. Census Bureau, M3 current data tables","url":"https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/currentdata.html","checkedAt":"2026-10-04"},{"name":"U.S. Census Bureau, M3 methodology","url":"https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/Web_Methodology.pdf","checkedAt":"2026-10-04"},{"name":"U.S. Census Bureau, M3 definitions","url":"https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/definitions/index.html","checkedAt":"2026-10-04"}],"translations":[{"language":"tr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/tr/news/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026?lang=tr"},{"language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026?lang=en"},{"language":"ar","url":"https://haberpaper.com/ar/news/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026?lang=ar"},{"language":"fr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/fr/news/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026?lang=fr"},{"language":"es","url":"https://haberpaper.com/es/news/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/us-manufacturers-orders-shipments-inventories-august-2026?lang=es"}],"data_types":["metrics"],"data":{"version":1,"blocks":[{"id":"us-m3-august-2026-monthly-movements","type":"metrics","title":{"tr":"Ağustos imalat siparişleri ve stokları","en":"August manufacturing orders and stocks","ar":"طلبات التصنيع ومخزوناته في أغسطس","fr":"Commandes et stocks manufacturiers d'août","es":"Pedidos e inventarios manufactureros de agosto"},"description":{"tr":"Census Bureau M3 raporundaki mevsim etkilerinden arındırılmış aylık değişimler ve yuvarlanmış cari dolar düzeyleri.","en":"Seasonally adjusted monthly changes and rounded current-dollar levels from the Census Bureau M3 report.","ar":"التغيرات الشهرية المعدلة موسمياً والمستويات المقربة بالدولار الجاري من تقرير M3 لمكتب الإحصاء.","fr":"Variations mensuelles désaisonnalisées et niveaux arrondis en dollars courants du rapport M3 du Census Bureau.","es":"Variaciones mensuales desestacionalizadas y niveles redondeados en dólares corrientes del informe M3 de la Oficina del Censo."},"methodology":{"tr":"Değişimler Census Bureau M3 Ağustos 2026 tam raporundaki mevsim etkilerinden arındırılmış değerlerdir. Kaynak dolar tutarları ay boyunca gerçekleşen sipariş/sevkiyat akımları veya ay sonu stokları/birikmiş siparişleridir; değerler fiyat değişimlerinden arındırılmamıştır. Yapılandırılmış dolar düzeyleri bültende milyar doların onda birine yuvarlanmış tutarların USD karşılığıdır. Gönüllü ve olasılıklı olmayan yaklaşık 3.000 şirket panelinin örnekleme hatası hesaplanamaz; rapor revizyona ve diğer anket hatalarına açıktır.","en":"Changes are seasonally adjusted values from the Census Bureau's August 2026 M3 full report. Source dollar values represent monthly order/shipment flows or end-of-month inventory/backlog stocks and are not adjusted for price changes. Structured USD levels convert amounts rounded in the bulletin to the nearest tenth of a billion dollars. The voluntary, non-probability panel of about 3,000 companies has no calculable sampling error and estimates remain subject to revision and other survey errors.","ar":"التغيرات قيم معدلة موسمياً من التقرير الكامل لمسح M3 لشهر أغسطس 2026. تمثل القيم الدولارية المصدر تدفقات الطلبات والشحنات خلال الشهر أو أرصدة المخزون والطلبات المتراكمة في نهاية الشهر، ولا تعدل حسب تغير الأسعار. وتحول مستويات USD المنظمة المبالغ المقربة في النشرة إلى أقرب عُشر مليار دولار. لا يمكن حساب خطأ المعاينة لعينة طوعية غير احتمالية تضم نحو 3,000 شركة، وتظل التقديرات عرضة للمراجعة وأخطاء المسح الأخرى.","fr":"Les variations sont les valeurs désaisonnalisées du rapport complet M3 d'août 2026 du Census Bureau. Les montants en dollars représentent des flux mensuels de commandes/expéditions ou des stocks/carnets en fin de mois et ne sont pas corrigés des prix. Les niveaux structurés en USD convertissent les montants arrondis dans la publication au dixième de milliard le plus proche. L'échantillon volontaire et non probabiliste d'environ 3 000 entreprises ne permet pas de calculer l'erreur d'échantillonnage ; les estimations peuvent être révisées et comporter d'autres erreurs d'enquête.","es":"Los cambios son valores desestacionalizados del informe completo M3 de agosto de 2026 de la Oficina del Censo. Los valores en dólares representan flujos mensuales de pedidos/envíos o existencias/cartera al cierre del mes y no se ajustan por precios. Los niveles USD estructurados convierten los importes redondeados en la publicación a la décima de millardo más cercana. En el panel voluntario y no probabilístico de unas 3.000 empresas no puede calcularse el error de muestreo; las estimaciones están sujetas a revisión y otros errores de encuesta."},"sourceUrls":["https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/current/index.html","https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/currentdata.html","https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/Web_Methodology.pdf"],"updatedAt":"2026-10-04T06:09:53+03:00","items":[{"label":{"tr":"Yeni siparişler, mevsim etkilerinden arındırılmış aylık değişim","en":"New orders, seasonally adjusted monthly change","ar":"التغير الشهري للطلبات الجديدة المعدلة موسمياً","fr":"Variation mensuelle désaisonnalisée des nouvelles commandes","es":"Cambio mensual desestacionalizado de nuevos 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Seasonally adjusted new orders reached $663.5 billion, an increase of $0.7 billion or 0.1%. July had risen 0.8%. Orders represent manufacturers’ intentions to buy for immediate or future delivery, net of cancellations. August is the reference period; 2 October is the publication date. The estimates are expressed in current dollars and are not adjusted for price changes, so their movement is not a direct measure of real output volume.","Manufacturers’ shipments were virtually unchanged in August after eight consecutive monthly increases. Their value was estimated at $658.6 billion, with the change amounting to less than $0.1 billion. Shipments had risen 0.8% in July. The shipment measure covers the value of products sold by manufacturing establishments; it is different from the stock of orders not yet filled. The report presents flow measures as activity during the month, while inventories and unfilled orders are reported as end-of-month levels. That distinction matters: orders and shipments describe flows processed over the month, whereas inventories and backlogs describe businesses’ positions at the end of the period.","Unfilled orders, the backlog of orders not yet shipped, had increased in 25 of the previous 26 months and rose another $9.9 billion, or 0.6%, to $1.6096 trillion in August. The unfilled-orders-to-shipments ratio moved from 6.81 to 6.87. Manufacturers’ inventories rose $5.1 billion, or 0.5%, to $972.4 billion, extending their monthly increase to eleven months. The inventories-to-shipments ratio edged up from 1.47 to 1.48. These ratios compare the scale of stocks with a sales flow; alone, they do not show when backlogged orders will be produced, whether orders will be cancelled, or whether inventory is excessive.","Industry components moved in different directions behind the aggregate. Seasonally adjusted orders for durable goods declined 0.1%, while nondurable-goods orders increased 0.3%. Orders for primary metals rose 1.2% and machinery rose 1.1%; fabricated metal products fell 1.4% and transportation equipment fell 0.7%. Orders excluding transportation increased 0.3%. These are estimates for different industry groups in the same month, and no single sector dictated the total direction. Monthly dollar values are not direct measures of production volume or physical units: the bulletin reports current-price estimates and does not deflate them for inflation.","The voluntary monthly M3 survey uses a panel of about 3,000 companies. Its design targets companies with annual manufacturing shipments of at least $500 million, alongside a supplemental panel of smaller firms. Because the panel is not a probability sample, the Census Bureau says it cannot calculate the amount of sampling error; coverage, response and nonresponse can also introduce other errors. Company or divisional reports supply monthly changes used to estimate movements across manufacturing establishments, and missing values may be imputed from historical company or industry trends. The new-orders estimate is derived from estimated shipments plus the change in unfilled orders. Prior months are revised for late reports and seasonal adjustment, so August should be read as a provisional monthly indicator with those limitations in mind."],"key_points":[],"sections":[]},"text":"The Census Bureau said orders rose for a second month while shipments were almost flat after eight months of increases; inventories and backlogs also grew.\n\nThe U.S. Census Bureau said new orders for manufactured goods rose for a second consecutive month in its August 2026 Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders report, released on 2 October. Seasonally adjusted new orders reached $663.5 billion, an increase of $0.7 billion or 0.1%. July had risen 0.8%. Orders represent manufacturers’ intentions to buy for immediate or future delivery, net of cancellations. August is the reference period; 2 October is the publication date. The estimates are expressed in current dollars and are not adjusted for price changes, so their movement is not a direct measure of real output volume.\n\nManufacturers’ shipments were virtually unchanged in August after eight consecutive monthly increases. Their value was estimated at $658.6 billion, with the change amounting to less than $0.1 billion. Shipments had risen 0.8% in July. The shipment measure covers the value of products sold by manufacturing establishments; it is different from the stock of orders not yet filled. The report presents flow measures as activity during the month, while inventories and unfilled orders are reported as end-of-month levels. That distinction matters: orders and shipments describe flows processed over the month, whereas inventories and backlogs describe businesses’ positions at the end of the period.\n\nUnfilled orders, the backlog of orders not yet shipped, had increased in 25 of the previous 26 months and rose another $9.9 billion, or 0.6%, to $1.6096 trillion in August. The unfilled-orders-to-shipments ratio moved from 6.81 to 6.87. Manufacturers’ inventories rose $5.1 billion, or 0.5%, to $972.4 billion, extending their monthly increase to eleven months. The inventories-to-shipments ratio edged up from 1.47 to 1.48. These ratios compare the scale of stocks with a sales flow; alone, they do not show when backlogged orders will be produced, whether orders will be cancelled, or whether inventory is excessive.\n\nIndustry components moved in different directions behind the aggregate. Seasonally adjusted orders for durable goods declined 0.1%, while nondurable-goods orders increased 0.3%. Orders for primary metals rose 1.2% and machinery rose 1.1%; fabricated metal products fell 1.4% and transportation equipment fell 0.7%. Orders excluding transportation increased 0.3%. These are estimates for different industry groups in the same month, and no single sector dictated the total direction. Monthly dollar values are not direct measures of production volume or physical units: the bulletin reports current-price estimates and does not deflate them for inflation.\n\nThe voluntary monthly M3 survey uses a panel of about 3,000 companies. Its design targets companies with annual manufacturing shipments of at least $500 million, alongside a supplemental panel of smaller firms. Because the panel is not a probability sample, the Census Bureau says it cannot calculate the amount of sampling error; coverage, response and nonresponse can also introduce other errors. Company or divisional reports supply monthly changes used to estimate movements across manufacturing establishments, and missing values may be imputed from historical company or industry trends. The new-orders estimate is derived from estimated shipments plus the change in unfilled orders. Prior months are revised for late reports and seasonal adjustment, so August should be read as a provisional monthly indicator with those limitations in mind.","corrections":[],"editorial_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"economy","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/economy-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic trading harbour with a cargo ship, containers and a bridge.","language":"en"},"section_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"economy","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/economy-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic trading harbour with a cargo ship, containers and a bridge.","language":"en"}}}