Table 1
Merchandise trade of Canada, balance of payments basis, seasonally adjusted - Current dollars

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Merchandise trade of Canada, balance of payments basis, seasonally adjusted - Current dollars
Table summary
This table displays merchandise imports and exports, on a balance of payments basis, by seasonal adjustment, current dollars. The row headers identify annual, quarterly, and monthly periods. The column headers provide information on exports, imports, and trade balance, in millions of dollars, and period to period change, in percent.
  Export Import Trade balance Period to period change
Export Import Balance
  millions of dollars percent millions of dollars
2011 456,612 456,045 568 13.0 10.2 10,271
2012 463,135 474,287 -11,152 1.4 4.0 -11,720
2013 479,266 486,487 -7,221 3.5 2.6 3,931
2014 528,915 524,292 4,623 10.4 7.8 11,844
2013  
First quarter 118,401 119,928 -1,527 2.6 2.0 638
Second quarter 118,855 120,210 -1,355 0.4 0.2 172
Third quarter 120,959 122,755 -1,796 1.8 2.1 -441
Fourth quarter 121,051 123,595 -2,544 0.1 0.7 -748
2014  
First quarter 128,511 126,596 1,915 6.2 2.4 4,459
Second quarter 133,289 130,765 2,524 3.7 3.3 609
Third quarter 135,034 132,442 2,592 1.3 1.3 68
Fourth quarter 132,081 134,489 -2,408 -2.2 1.5 -5,000
2015  
First quarter 128,176 135,233 -7,058 -3.0 0.6 -4,650
2014  
January 41,352 41,367 -15 1.3 -0.3 642
February 43,295 42,614 681 4.7 3.0 695
March 43,863 42,614 1,249 1.3 0.0 568
April 43,236 43,121 115 -1.4 1.2 -1,134
May 45,013 44,448 565 4.1 3.1 450
June 45,040 43,196 1,844 0.1 -2.8 1,280
July 45,567 43,519 2,048 1.2 0.7 204
August 44,663 44,265 398 -2.0 1.7 -1,650
September 44,804 44,658 146 0.3 0.9 -251
October 44,506 45,204 -699 -0.7 1.2 -845
November 43,620 44,102 -482 -2.0 -2.4 217
December 43,955 45,183 -1,228 0.8 2.5 -746
2015  
January 43,346 45,170 -1,824 -1.4 0.0 -596
February 42,333 44,547 -2,215 -2.3 -1.4 -391
March 42,497 45,516 -3,019 0.4 2.2 -805
Source(s):
Statistics Canada. Table 228-0069 - Merchandise imports, exports and trade balance, customs and balance of payments basis for all countries, by seasonal adjustment and principal trading partners monthly (dollars x 1,000,000), CANSIM (database).
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