Manufacturing sales reached their highest level since February 2025, rising 3.3% month over month to $72.1 billion in September.

• Sales rose in 14 of the 21 subsectors, led by the transportation equipment (+9.2%) and petroleum and coal (+5.3%) subsectors. With the overall gain in September, total manufacturing sales on a year-over-year basis were up 2.7%.
• In constant dollars, total sales rose 2.7% in September, while the Industrial Product Price Index was up 0.8%.
• On a quarterly basis, sales increased 2.8% to $212.3 billion in the third quarter of 2025, the largest quarterly increase since the second quarter of 2022. The petroleum and coal (+12.5%), primary metal (+6.4%) and transportation equipment (+3.2%) subsectors were the largest contributors to the increase in the third quarter of 2025.