{"id":479164,"date":"2026-02-16T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479164\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:40:07","slug":"manufacturing-sales-up-0-6-per-cent-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479164\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing sales up 0.6 per cent in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says total manufacturing sales increased 0.6 per cent to $71 billion in December, after two consecutive monthly declines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency says the two areas that contributed most to the increase were motor vehicle and food product sales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Motor vehicles sales alone rose 12 per cent to $4.3 billion as production increased at a major auto assembly plant in Ontario, which had been operating partially in October and November due to semiconductor chip shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sales of food products were up two per cent to $13.3 billion in December as higher volumes were sold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The gains were partially offset by a 5.1 per cent decline in petroleum and coal product sales attributed to a drop in prices that came as a global surplus continued to put downward pressure on energy markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In real terms, manufacturing sales rose 1.8 per cent in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says total manufacturing sales increased 0.6 per cent to $71 billion in December, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[23201,45,49,48,46,295,1688,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-479164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-automotive","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-manufacturing","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479164","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=479164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}