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Canada Survey of Manufacturing: September 2015
Manufacturing sales in Canada declined 1.5 per cent to $51.1 billion in September, following a 0.6 per cent decrease in August, said Statistics Canada Wednesday. Lower sales in the motor vehicle assembly and the petroleum and coal product industries were responsible for the decline. Sales were down in 13 of 21 industries, representing 78.6 per…
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Trade Deals: North America and International
Just as the 2006 Canada-US Softwood Lumber Agreement is expiring, leaving a one-year stand-still period before either country can embark on any kind of trade action against the other, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is signed between twelve Asian and North American countries, including Canada and the US. That agreement now has to be passed domestically by…
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Trade Deals: North America and International
Just as the 2006 Canada-US Softwood Lumber Agreement is expiring, leaving a one-year stand-still period before either country can embark on any kind of trade action against the other, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is signed between twelve Asian and North American countries, including Canada and the US. That agreement now has to be passed domestically by…
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Canada Industrial Capacity Utilization Rates: 2Q 2015
Canadian industries operated at 81.3 per cent of their production capacity in 2Q, down from 82.6 per cent in 1Q, said Statistics Canada Thursday. This was the second consecutive quarterly decline. As in the previous quarter, the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction and manufacturing industries led the decline. Outside of manufacturing, capacity utilization…
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Merchandise Trade, US and Canada: July 2015
Canada’s exports rose 2.3 per cent in July and were concentrated in non-energy products, according to Statistics Canada Thursday. Exports excluding energy products rose 4 per cent. Overall, export prices grew 1.3 per cent while export volumes advanced 1.0 per cent. US exports, meanwhile, increased 0.4 per cent to US$188.5 billion, despite a strong dollar…
