{"id":895833,"date":"2026-09-14T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895833\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:56:10","slug":"canada-manufacturing-sales-down-0-4-at-78-7b-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895833\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada manufacturing: Sales down 0.4% at $78.7B in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 0.4 per cent to $78.7 billion in July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency says the move lower, which followed five consecutive monthly increases, came as sales fell in eight of the 21 subsectors it tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sales of chemical products fell 6.6 per cent to $5.9 billion in July, as sales of resin, synthetic rubber, and artificial and synthetic fibres and filaments dropped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Food manufacturing sales fell 1.4 per cent to $13.9 billion on lower sales in the grain and oilseed milling industry group. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The petroleum and coal products subsector saw a 1.9 per cent increase in sales to $10.4 billion in July, boosted by higher prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In constant dollars, total manufacturing sales fell 1.4 per cent in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 0.4 per cent to $78.7 billion in July. The agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-895833","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\/895833","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=895833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}