New orders on the local market for capital goods, soft goods, hard goods and semi-finished products went up by 0.8 percent in August compared with the previous month, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
While orders for capital goods increased by 6.4 percent in August, there was an overall decline in orders for soft goods (-7.1 percent), hard goods (-6.9 percent) and semi-finished products (-2.3 percent).
Compared with the same period last year, there was a decrease in orders for semi-finished products (-1.6 percent) and capital goods (-1.3 percent), but an increase in orders for hard goods (14.4 percent) and soft goods (7.6 percent).
