{"id":48478,"date":"2025-08-06T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48478\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T02:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:48:11","slug":"canadas-trade-with-u-s-picked-up-despite-tariffs-statcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48478\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s trade with U.S. picked up despite tariffs: StatCan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0August 05, 2025 at 2:38PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 05, 2025 at 10:46AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/250805\/dq250805b-eng.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/250805\/dq250805b-eng.htm\">Statistics Canada says <\/a>Canadian exporters did more business with the United States in June even as tariffs ramped up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency says exports to the U.S. rose 3.1 per cent in June, but were still down 12.5 per cent on a year-over-year basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s trade surplus with the U.S. expanded to $3.9 billion in June as imports rose less than exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">StatCan says declines in some metals exports coincided with the U.S. doubling global steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 per cent early in the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Overall, Canada\u2019s trade deficit with the world widened to $5.9 billion in June, up from $5.5 billion in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">StatCan says a one-time, high-value shipment spurred a jump in imports for the month, but that was somewhat offset by Canadian firms getting higher prices for their exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Craig Lord, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0August 05, 2025 at 2:38PM EDT Published:\u00a0August 05, 2025 at 10:46AM EDT OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-48478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48478","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=48478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}