{"id":261220,"date":"2025-11-04T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261220\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:38:08","slug":"the-us-government-shutdown-is-no-longer-affecting-only-american-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261220\/","title":{"rendered":"The US government shutdown is no longer affecting only American data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Statistics Canada was scheduled to release trade balance data today but the report was delayed because of the inability to properly compile the US cross-border numbers. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Statistics Canada sources its data on Canada&#8217;s exports to the United States from the United States Census Bureau, which isn&#8217;t operating. It also relies on US data on trade in services. In turn, the lack of trade data could be a big problem for GDP data, which is due November 27\/28.<\/p>\n<p>If the September 2025 international merchandise trade data are<br \/>\nunavailable when these statistics are compiled for the third quarter<br \/>\nof 2025, Statistics Canada will produce special estimates of Canadian<br \/>\nexports to the United States for that month, relying in part on modelled<br \/>\n data. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Even if the US government returns, it will take awhile to get the data compiled so we&#8217;re probably already cutting it close on that GDP estimate.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The good news is that Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/11\/03\/shutdown-aca-tax-credits-democrats-republicans?utm_medium=organic_social&amp;utm_source=x&amp;utm_campaign=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">reported <\/a>late yesterday that some Republicans and Democrats were working on a re-opening compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada was scheduled to release trade balance data today but the report was delayed because of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-261220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}