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Excavator sales data by month: the 2026 source map
Excavator sales data by month comes from three free feeds: the China Construction Machinery Association's monthly bulletins with domestic-versus-export unit splits, Statistics Canada table 16-10-0047-01 reporting monthly NAICS 33312 construction machinery shipments since January 1992, and the US Census trade API tracking Schedule B heading 8429 excavator flows monthly since 2010.
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Which sources actually publish excavator sales by month?
That asymmetry shapes any demand-tracking build. China is where monthly excavator unit sales exist at product-class level, published free as HTML articles; North America offers monthly dollar shipments and monthly export values instead; Europe publishes production annually. A monthly excavator demand model therefore stitches a Chinese unit-sales feed to North American value series and treats European production as an annual calibration layer.
What do the CNCMA monthly bulletins contain?
The China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA/CNCMA) publishes monthly 'sales express reports' in its Industry News column covering roughly 10 product classes per report - excavators, loaders, motor graders, truck cranes, crawler cranes and forklifts among them - split between domestic sales and exports with year-on-year growth rates. Each report yields six usable fields: product category, units sold in the month, YoY percentage, domestic units, export units and year-to-date cumulative units.
What about Europe - is there a monthly excavator sales series?
No public monthly European excavator sales series exists in this slice, and knowing that saves weeks of searching. The nearest substitutes run on other clocks. CECE, the Committee for European Construction Equipment, runs a monthly Business Barometer of about 220 senior industry representatives yielding a Business Climate Index for current conditions and six-month sales expectations - but detailed results go only to survey participants, quarterly summaries reach members, and just an annual infographic plus the spring Annual Economic Report are public. Germany's VDMA Fachgruppe Baumaschinen reserves order-intake and turnover statistics for participating members behind a login, leaving headline numbers to press releases; Datadory scores it 4 of 10, the lowest primary record in the slice.
The open alternative is Eurostat PRODCOM dataset DS-066341: annual production value and volume per 8-digit Prodcom product under NACE 28.92 (machinery for mining, quarrying and construction) since 1995, commercial delivery terms 4.0, served through SDMX APIs across roughly 4,000 products and ~30 reporting countries. Treat PRODCOM as the structural baseline and CECE barometer headlines as a sentiment overlay. For machines moving once sold, the Eurostat road freight transport statistics (road_go_ta_tg) dataset measures annual tonnes and tonne-kilometres by NST 2007 goods group across 71,012 observations since 2008, also commercial delivery terms 4.0.
How do you assemble a monthly excavator demand dashboard?
A working pipeline uses four feeds and one validation anchor:
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CNCMA - China Construction Machinery Association
Statistics Canada - Manufacturers' Sales by Industry (incl. NAICS 33312)
US Census International Trade Data - Schedule B 8429 Construction Machinery Exports
US Census Annual Survey of Manufactures (NAICS 333120)
Eurostat road freight transport statistics (road_go_ta_tg)
CECE - Committee for European Construction Equipment data
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Where can I find monthly excavator sales data?
The China Construction Machinery Association publishes monthly unit sales for excavators and roughly nine other product classes, split domestic versus export, as free HTML bulletins. For machine-readable monthly series, Statistics Canada table 16-10-0047-01 reports NAICS 33312 construction machinery shipments from January 1992 to June 2026, and the US Census trade API tracks Schedule B 8429 flows monthly since 2010.
Does the US government publish excavator sales by month?
Not as unit sales. The closest official monthly series is the Census International Trade API on Schedule B heading 8429 - self-propelled bulldozers, graders, excavators, shovel loaders and road rollers by partner country, state and port since January 2010 under commercial delivery terms. Annual domestic production comes separately from the Annual Survey of Manufactures at NAICS 333120, which is yearly.
Is there a monthly European excavator sales statistic?
No public one exists in this slice. CECE's monthly Business Barometer surveys about 220 senior industry representatives but publishes detailed results only to participants, with quarterly summaries for members. The open European series is Eurostat PRODCOM DS-066341 - annual production value and volume for NACE 28.92 since 1995 under commercial delivery terms 4.0.