german manufacturing orders declined in february mainly due to a drop in orders from abroad manufacturing orders fell 22 on month in february in adjusted terms following a revised 23 increase in january according to data from federal statistics office destatis released wednesday economists polled by the wall street journal had expected orders to decline by 05 orders of capital goods recorded a decrease of 28 producers of intermediate goods saw new orders in february fall 19 on the month before regarding consumer goods orders went up 07 destatis said foreign orders decreased 33 in february compared with the previous month new orders from the eurozone fell 33 and new orders from other countries went down 34 domestic orders registered a decrease of 02 on the previous month destatiss data showed manufacturing orders rose 29 in february on an annual basis the statistics office said german industrial production data for february is due to be published thursday