{"id":486187,"date":"2026-02-19T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:46:11","slug":"merchandise-trade-deficit-1-3b-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486187\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchandise trade deficit $1.3B in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0February 19, 2026 at 9:33AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0February 19, 2026 at 9:04AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/260219\/dq260219a-eng.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/260219\/dq260219a-eng.htm\">the country\u2019s merchandise trade deficit narrowed in December to $1.3 billion<\/a> as growth in exports outpaced a rise in imports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency says the result compared with a revised deficit of $2.6 billion for November. The November deficit had initially been reported at $2.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For December, total exports rose 2.6 per cent to $65.6 billion, boosted by an 18 per cent increase in the metal and non-metallic mineral products group, which includes unwrought gold, silver, and platinum group metals, and their alloys \u2014 a category largely composed of unwrought gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Excluding the metal and non-metallic mineral products group, exports edged down 0.2 per cent in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Total imports rose 0.6 per cent in December to $66.9 billion as imports of motor vehicles and parts gained 5.1 per cent for the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In volume terms, both exports and imports rose 1.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0February 19, 2026 at 9:33AM EST Published:\u00a0February 19, 2026 at 9:04AM EST OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[712,45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-486187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-apple-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486187","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=486187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}