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Description: Monthly activity indicators draw from a variety of data sources to provide information on Canada's transportation system. The indicators measure passengers and freight, as well as merchandise trade. Data are available from January 2017.

Description: Monthly activity indicators draw from a variety of data sources to provide information on Canada's transportation system. The indicators measure passengers and freight, as well as merchandise trade. Data are available from January 2017. The table presents month-over-month and year-over-year percentage changes.

Description: This infographic focuses on innovation activities and international trade in Canada, based on data from the 2022 Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy. It presents the percentage of Canadian businesses that conducted innovation activities, the innovation rates for businesses that conducted innovation activities in 2022 and for businesses that did not conduct such activities, the percentage of Canadian businesses engaging in international trade, and the obstacles to exporting goods or services.

Description: Quarterly exports and imports of goods and services components in chained (2017) dollars, current dollars and contribution to percent change.

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Quarterly data on international trade in services by principal trading partners.

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Canada's international trade in goods are available by category based on the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). Data are also available for 6 countries/regions. Quarterly data are presented with and without seasonal adjustments.

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Canada's international trade in services are available by category. Quarterly data are presented with and without seasonal adjustments.

Description: Canadian International merchandise trade data grouped by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes of the 2017 NAICS structure version 2. The detailed NAICS codes (all levels) are from Manufacturing industries (31-33), Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting industries (11), Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction industries (21), Utilities (22) and Wholesale Trade industries (41). Users have the option of selecting imports and exports, the country of origin and the country of destination. Data are monthly and on a customs basis.

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Percentage of enterprises for which specific obstacles to exporting or attempting to export goods or services were not at all difficult, somewhat difficult, difficult, very difficult or not applicable, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Obstacles to exporting or attempting to export include administrative obstacles and resource limitations—Canadian legal or administrative obstacles, foreign legal or administrative obstacles, foreign tariffs or trade barriers, concerns over intellectual property (IP) protection, access to financing, lack of internal resources or capacity, and lack of management know-how; external barriers—efficiency, capacity or reliability of transportation infrastructures, and shipping costs; market obstacles—identifying foreign customers, obtaining knowledge on markets of interest, identifying foreign partners, suppliers or distributors, uncertainty of foreign or international standards, and receiving payment from foreign customers; and other obstacles—all other obstacles to exporting or attempting to export.

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Percentage of enterprises that imported goods or services from a business operating outside Canada to resell them “as-is”, use them in production of other goods or services, or use them to support business activities, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.

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International merchandise trade data grouped by Principal Trading Partners (PTP). Users have the option of selecting Imports, Exports or Trade Balance. Data are unadjusted and seasonally adjusted, on a Customs and Balance of Payments basis, at a quarterly frequency.

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Canadian domestic export concentration, by destination market, product and province of production. Users have the option of selecting a concentration ratio as well as an index of the ratio for Canada, the provinces and territories. Data by destination market are available for all countries combined as well as for all countries excluding the United States.

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International merchandise trade data aggregated by codes of the Classification by Broad Economic Categories Rev. 5 (BEC Rev. 5). Users have the option of selecting imports and exports by BEC Rev. 5 code, the country of origin and the country of destination. Data are annual and on customs basis.

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Monthly international trade in services statistics are compiled as a nowcast of the quarterly international trade in services data. Statistics Canada first projects the next quarter’s totals (using previous quarterly actuals as an input) via an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model and then disaggregates the quarter using a monthly indicator series. Adjustments are made each month as new information is made available.

Description: International merchandise trade data grouped by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) section. Users have the option of selecting Imports and Exports. Data are unadjusted and seasonally adjusted, on a Customs and Balance of Payments basis, at a monthly frequency.

Description: International merchandise trade data grouped by the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) highlighting the motor vehicle and parts section. Data are unadjusted and seasonally adjusted, on a Customs and Balance of Payments basis at a monthly frequency.

Description: International merchandise trade data grouped by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) section. Users have the option of selecting Imports and Exports. Data are unadjusted and seasonally adjusted, on a Customs and Balance of Payments basis, at a quarterly frequency.

Description: International merchandise trade data grouped by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) section. Users have the option of selecting Imports and Exports. Data are in constant dollar terms, calculated using a chained Fisher formula with 2017 as the base year, seasonally adjusted, on a Balance of Payments basis, at a monthly frequency.

Description: International merchandise trade data grouped by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) section. Users have the option of selecting Imports and Exports. Data are in constant dollar terms, calculated using a chained Fisher formula with 2017 as the base year, seasonally adjusted, on a Balance of Payments basis, at a quarterly frequency.

Description: International merchandise trade price and volume indexes, grouped by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) section. Users have the option of selecting Imports or Exports, as well as Paasche or Laspeyres price indexes, or Laspeyres volume indexes. Data are unadjusted and seasonally adjusted, on a Customs and Balance of Payments basis, at a monthly frequency.

Description: The papers published in the Analysis in Brief analytical series shed light on current economic issues. Aimed at a general audience, they cover a wide range of topics including National Accounts, business enterprises, trade, transportation, agriculture, the environment, manufacturing, science and technology, services, etc.

Description: This article presents revisions to 2022 and 2023 exports of travel services, focusing mainly on integrating new estimates of the expenditures of temporary foreign workers in Canada. These revisions are reflected in the 2023 annual estimates of international trade in services, released on November 12, 2024.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This infographic focuses on innovation activities and international trade in Canada, based on data from the 2022 Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy. It presents the percentage of Canadian businesses that conducted innovation activities, the innovation rates for businesses that conducted innovation activities in 2022 and for businesses that did not conduct such activities, the percentage of Canadian businesses engaging in international trade, and the obstacles to exporting goods or services.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: The participation of women-owned businesses in exports is important for policies aiming to ensure that the benefits of international trade reach all groups. Women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Canada are as likely to export as those owned by men, and their export intensity (exports as a share of total sales) was not significantly different. This article examines factors related to the exporting success of women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada.

Description: This infographic examines Canadian exporters in 2021 that have been funded by the federal government through Business Innovation and Growth Support (BIGS) programs. Data is presented by program, countries of export, industry and comparison highlights.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This guide presents information to enhance an understanding of Canadian International Merchandise Trade statistics. It provides essential definitions, describes key concepts and methodology, and outlines data processes. An overview of the published data, including descriptions of product, industry, and geographical classifications, is provided along with links to the products where these data are available.

Description: The Canadian Export Classification is a structured, hierarchical classification system based on the Harmonized Description and Coding System. The HS nomenclature is divided into 21 Sections, which in general, group goods produced in the same sector of the economy.

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The mandate of the Analytical Studies Branch (ASB) is to provide high-quality, relevant and timely information on economic, health and social issues that are important to Canadians. The branch strategically makes use of expert knowledge and a large range of statistical sources to describe, draw inferences from, and make objective and scientifically supported deductions about the evolving nature of the Canadian economy and society. Research questions are addressed by applying leading-edge methods, including microsimulation and predictive analytics using a range of linked and integrated administrative and survey data. In supporting greater access to data, ASB linked data are made available to external researchers and policy makers to support evidence-based decision making. Research results are disseminated by the branch using a range of mediums (i.e., research papers, studies, infographics, videos, and blogs) to meet user needs. The branch also provides analytical support and training, feedback, and quality assurance to the wide range of programs within and outside Statistics Canada.

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Beginning in November 2014, International Trade in goods data will be provided on a Balance of Payments (BOP) basis for additional country detail. In publishing this data, BOP-based exports to and imports from 27 countries, referred to as Canada’s Principal Trading Partners (PTPs), will be highlighted for the first time. BOP-based trade in goods data will be available for countries such as China and Mexico, Brazil and India, South Korea, and our largest European Union trading partners, in response to substantial demand for information on these countries in recent years. Until now, Canada’s geographical trading patterns have been examined almost exclusively through analysis of Customs-based trade data. Moreover, BOP trade in goods data for these countries will be available alongside the now quarterly Trade in Services data as well as annual Foreign Direct Investment data for many of these Principal Trading Partners, facilitating country-level international trade and investment analysis using fully comparable data. The objective of this article is to introduce these new measures. This note will first walk users through the key BOP concepts, most importantly the concept of change in ownership. This will serve to familiarize analysts with the Balance of Payments framework for analyzing country-level data, in contrast to Customs-based trade data. Second, some preliminary analysis will be reviewed to illustrate the concepts, with provisional estimates for BOP-based trade with China serving as the principal example. Lastly, we will outline the expansion of quarterly trade in services to generate new estimates of trade for the PTPs and discuss future work in trade statistics.

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Canadian international merchandise trade data are released monthly and may be revised in subsequent releases as new information becomes available. These data are released approximately 35 days following the close of the reference period and represent one of the timeliest economic indicators produced by Statistics Canada. Given their timeliness, some of the data are not received in time and need to be estimated or modelled. This is the case for imports and exports of crude petroleum and natural gas. More specifically, at the time of release, energy trade data are based on an incomplete set of information and are revised as Statistics Canada and National Energy Board information becomes available in the subsequent months. Due to the increasing importance of energy imports and exports and the timeliness of the data, the revisions to energy prices and volumes are having an increasingly significant impact on the monthly revision to Canada’s trade balance. This note explains how the estimates in the initial release are made when data sources are not yet available, and how the original data are adjusted in subsequent releases.

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This is an update of the 2009 article Revisions to international merchandise trade statistics, accounting for changes resulting from increased timeliness in the release of merchandise trade statistics.

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This paper presents the background, methodological change and implementation of the revised real import and export adjustments that account for exchange rate fluctuations.

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Statistics Canada produces monthly import and export merchandise trade price indexes. For the majority of these prices, Statistics Canada uses a variety of proxy measures to derive the price index in lieu of collecting observed import and export prices. The ability of these proxy measures to reflect international trade price movements during times of exchange rate volatility is limited. For this reason, the constant dollar trade estimates derived using these proxy price indexes have been refined with constant dollar adjustments following the appreciation of the Canadian exchange rate beginning at the end of 2002. This paper explains the rational and methodology behind these adjustments, as well as the impact on published trade and GDP estimates.

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The Canadian Export Classification, incorporates amendments to the Nomenclature of the Harmonized Commodity and Coding System.

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This guide discusses the collection and interpretation of statistical data on Canada's trade in culture goods. This guide has been restructured and simplified to better meet the needs of data users. This version replaces Culture Goods Trade Estimates: Methodology and Technical Notes, Catalogue no. 81-595-MIE2004020.