Overall nonresidential construction spending declined on a monthly basis of 0.8% in March, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data published May 2. That followed nonresidential spending gains in the first two months of the year.

根据美国广播公司（ABC）的数据，自2021年3月以来，三月份的支出同比增长了5.6％，部分原因是制造业建设支出增长了31.9％。使用季节性调整的年率，三月份的非住宅支出总计8.392亿美元，或本月总计17.3亿美元的一半。但是，在16个类别中的11个中，每月支出每月下降。

私人非住宅建筑支出比2月下降了1.2％，公共支出下降了0.3％。两者都从2021年3月开始增加，私人支出增长了8.5％，公共支出增长了1.7％。

Religious, amusement and recreation and commercial construction sectors saw some of the greatest proportional one-month declines. The declines are actually worse than they appear because the numbers aren’t adjusted for inflation, says Anirban Basu, ABC’s chief economist.

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“While overall construction spending rose 0.1% in March, largely because of the strength in multifamily residential construction, construction spending was down in real terms,” he said in a statement.

Efforts by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation may help contractors by improving inputs pricing, but a potential recession could also cut demand for private construction, Basu added.

Associated General Contractors responded to the Census Bureau data by calling on the Biden administration to end tariffs in lumber, steel and aluminum products to curb rising prices, and on Congress to add funding for technical education and apprenticeship programs to help counter worker shortages.

AGC首席执行官斯蒂芬·桑德赫尔（Stephen Sandherr）在一份声明中说：“既然国会已经资助了基础设施建设的大幅增长，则必须增加材料和工人的供应。”