United States Durable Goods Orders 1992-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar

New orders for US manufactured durable goods declined 1.7 percent from a month earlier in July 2018, following a downwardly revised 0.7 percent advance in June and compared with market expectations of a 0.5 percent drop. Transportation equipment drove the decrease as volatile demand for civilian aircraft fell. Durable Goods Orders in the United States averaged 0.33 percent from 1992 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 23.50 percent in July of 2014 and a record low of -19 percent in August of 2014.

1Y 5Y 10Y MAX

width

height

Trading Economics members can view, download and compare data from nearly 200 countries, including more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, government bond yields, stock indexes and commodity prices.

Learn More Questions? Contact us Already a Member? Login

The Trading Economics Application Programming Interface (API) provides direct access to our data. It allows API clients to download millions of rows of historical data, to query our real-time economic calendar, subscribe to updates and receive quotes for currencies, commodities, stocks and bonds.

API Features Documentation Interested? Click here to contact us

US Durable Goods Orders Fall More than Expected

New orders for US manufactured durable goods declined 1.7 percent from a month earlier in July 2018, following a downwardly revised 0.7 percent advance in June and compared with market expectations of a 0.5 percent drop. Transportation equipment drove the decrease as volatile demand for civilian aircraft fell.

Demand for transport equipment slumped 5.3 percent in July (vs 1.8 percent in June), led by nondefense aircraft and parts (-35.4 percent vs 1.3 percent) and defense aircraft and parts (-34.6 percent vs 19.9 percent) while orders for motor vehicles and parts continued to increase (3.5 percent vs 4.7 percent). Demand also declined for nondefense capital goods (-4.6 percent vs 2 percent); defense capital goods (-8 percent vs -12.9 percent); and electrical equipment, appliances, and components (-0.2 percent vs 1.4 percent). Orders for fabricated metal products were unchanged (vs -0.7 percent in June). Meanwhile, an increase in demand was recorded for computers and electronic products (1.1 percent vs 0.8 percent); machinery (0.6 percent vs flat reading); and primary metals (0.3 percent vs -0.6 percent).

Excluding transportation, new orders went up 0.2 percent (vs 0.1 percent in June). Excluding defense, new orders fell 1 percent (vs 1.2 percent in June).

Shipments of manufactured durable goods in July, down following two consecutive monthly increases, decreased $0.5 billion or 0.2 percent to $250.8 billion. This followed a 1.6 percent June increase. Transportation equipment, down three of the last four months, drove the decrease, $1.6 billion or 1.9 percent to $83.9 billion.

Unfilled orders for manufactured durable goods in July, up eight of the last nine months, increased $0.1 billion or virtually unchanged to $1,164.7 billion. This followed a 0.3 percent June increase. Computers and electronic products, up five consecutive months, drove the increase, $0.3 billion or 0.3 percent to $115.3 billion.

Inventories of manufactured durable goods in July, up eighteen of the last nineteen months, increased $5.0 billion or 1.3 percent to $408.3 billion. This followed a virtually unchanged June decrease. Transportation equipment, up three of the last four months, led the increase, $4.4 billion or 3.5 percent to $131.3 billion.

US Census Bureau | Joana Ferreira | joana.ferreira@tradingeconomics.com
8/24/2018 12:54:59 PM

Recent Releases

US Durable Goods Orders Rebound Weaker than Expected
New orders for US manufactured durable goods rose 1 percent month-over-month in June 2018, following a downwardly revised 0.3 percent drop in May and missing market expectations of a 3 percent jump. Transportation equipment led the increase.
Published on 2018-07-26

US Durable Goods Orders Drop Less than Expected
New orders for US manufactured durable goods fell 0.6 percent month-over-month in May 2018, following a downwardly revised 1 percent drop in April while markets were expecting a bigger 1 percent decline. Transportation equipment led the decrease. Meanwhile, orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for business spending plans, slipped 0.2 percent last month, after jumping by 2.3 percent in April.
Published on 2018-06-27

US Durable Goods Orders Worse than Forecasts
New orders for US manufactured durable goods slumped 1.7 percent month-over-month in April of 2018, following an upwardly revised 2.7 percent rise in March. It compares with market expectations of a 1.4 percent drop as orders for transportation equipment tumbled 6.1 percent. However, orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for business spending, jumped 1 percent, reversing from a 0.9 percent decrease in March.
Published on 2018-05-25

US Durable Goods Orders Rise More than Expected in March
New orders for US manufactured durable goods rose 2.6 percent month-over-month in March 2018, following an upwardly revised 3.5 percent surge in February and easily beating market expectations of a 0.5 percent gain. This increase was mainly driven by higher demand for transportation equipment. However, orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for business spending plans, edged down 0.1 percent, the third decline in four months.
Published on 2018-04-26

Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-06-27	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	-0.6%	-1%	-1%	0.7%
2018-07-26	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	1%	-0.3%	3%	1.7%
2018-08-24	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	-1.7%	0.7%	-0.5%	-0.2%
2018-09-27	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM		-1.7%	1.7%	0.97%
2018-10-25	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM				0.34%
2018-11-21	01:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM				-0.08%

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	61.30	58.10	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	54.70	55.30	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	54.80	56.00	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	58.50	55.70	62.00	37.60		[+]
Composite Pmi	54.70	55.70	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	4.90	4.00	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.40	0.40	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	3.10	2.60	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	78.08	77.90	89.39	66.71	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	-1.70	0.70	23.50	-19.00	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-1.00	1.20	26.00	-19.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	0.20	0.10	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.20	0.40	4.60	-7.20	percent	[+]
New Orders	497754.00	501718.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	-0.80	0.60	10.60	-10.00	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.60	0.10	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	-26.93	30.34	166.37	-245.13	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.60	0.10	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	22245.00	23106.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	2012.60	1965.30	2012.60	14.70	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	108.80	107.90	108.80	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	76.50	75.00	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	11.90	25.70	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	19.00	25.60	39.00	-35.10	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	24.00	20.00	27.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	0.13	0.48	2.76	-5.21		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	30.90	32.30	47.10	-60.10	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	63.60	65.50	81.00	20.70	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	2.45	3.00	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	464.21	525.48	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	16.72	16.77	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	-5.30	-4.30	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	69.00	63.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	1250.00	1845.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	123.61	123.25	123.61	46.91	Index Points	[+]
Internet Speed	18747.58	17235.62	18747.58	3609.31	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	128949703.00	127873899.00	146874246.00	89399946.00	IP	[+]
API Crude Oil Stock Change	1.25	-8.64	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	867.00	860.00	1609.00	98.00		[+]
Corruption Index	75.00	74.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	16.00	18.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.85	5.70	5.85	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	2.00	3.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	6.00	8.00	8.00	4.00		[+]
Steel Production	7275.00	6847.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	14.10	12.70	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]

United States Durable Goods Orders

Durable Goods Orders refer to new orders placed with manufacturers for delivery of hard goods which meant to last at least three years. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Durable Goods Orders - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Durable Goods Orders - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2018.