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 461,511 474,800 -13,289 1.1 4.1 -13,857
2013 480,280 486,842 -6,562 4.1 2.5 6,727
2014 528,849 524,058 4,791 10.1 7.6 11,353
2013  
First quarter 118,190 119,763 -1,573 2.6 1.8 883
Second quarter 119,588 120,720 -1,132 1.2 0.8 441
Third quarter 120,996 122,865 -1,870 1.2 1.8 -738
Fourth quarter 121,507 123,494 -1,987 0.4 0.5 -117
2014  
First quarter 127,755 126,580 1,175 5.1 2.5 3,162
Second quarter 133,464 131,133 2,331 4.5 3.6 1,156
Third quarter 135,288 132,421 2,867 1.4 1.0 536
Fourth quarter 132,343 133,924 -1,582 -2.2 1.1 -4,448
2015  
First quarter 128,169 135,648 -7,480 -3.2 1.3 -5,898
Second quarter 129,502 135,863 -6,361 1.0 0.2 1,119
Third quarter 134,010 139,134 -5,125 3.5 2.4 1,236
2014  
January 40,946 41,309 -363 0.5 -0.4 343
February 43,071 42,549 522 5.2 3.0 886
March 43,738 42,722 1,015 1.5 0.4 493
April 43,344 43,156 188 -0.9 1.0 -828
May 45,204 44,610 594 4.3 3.4 407
June 44,916 43,367 1,549 -0.6 -2.8 954
July 45,693 43,462 2,230 1.7 0.2 682
August 44,973 44,328 646 -1.6 2.0 -1,585
September 44,622 44,631 -9 -0.8 0.7 -655
October 44,554 45,085 -530 -0.2 1.0 -521
November 43,936 44,021 -85 -1.4 -2.4 445
December 43,852 44,818 -966 -0.2 1.8 -882
2015  
January 43,185 44,921 -1,735 -1.5 0.2 -769
February 42,574 44,596 -2,022 -1.4 -0.7 -286
March 42,409 46,132 -3,723 -0.4 3.4 -1,701
April 42,470 45,115 -2,645 0.1 -2.2 1,078
May 42,479 45,201 -2,722 0.0 0.2 -78
June 44,553 45,546 -994 4.9 0.8 1,729
July 45,805 46,241 -436 2.8 1.5 557
August 44,421 46,786 -2,365 -3.0 1.2 -1,929
September 43,784 46,108 -2,323 -1.4 -1.4 42
October 42,980 45,740 -2,760 -1.8 -0.8 -437
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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