{"id":739021,"date":"2026-06-15T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739021\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:02:09","slug":"manufacturing-sales-up-4-2-in-april-at-77-1b-statcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739021\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing sales up 4.2% in April at $77.1B: StatCan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 4.2 per cent to $77.1 billion in April, as the petroleum and coal product group hit a record high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Petroleum and coal product sales jumped 22.6 per cent to $11.8 billion, following a 25.5 per cent increase in March, helped by higher volumes as several refineries ramped up production after maintenance shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Total manufacturing sales in constant dollars rose 1.8 per cent in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a separate report, Statistics Canada says wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain, rose 0.6 per cent to $89.3 billion in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The building material and supplies subsector was up 4.3 per cent at $12.7 billion, while the mineral, ore and precious metal industry group rose 15.7 per cent to $1 billion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In volume terms, wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain, fell 0.3 per cent in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 15, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 4.2 per cent to $77.1 billion in April, as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,1007,46,14236,14237],"class_list":["post-739021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-construction","tag-economy","tag-oilgas","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739021","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=739021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}