{"id":5124,"date":"2022-07-12T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=5124"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:29:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:29:06","slug":"canadas-trade-surplus-reached-5-3-billion-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/canadas-trade-surplus-reached-5-3-billion-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s trade surplus reached $5.3 billion in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada announced that Canada&#8217;s merchandise exports rose 4.1% in May, compared with April, a fifth consecutive monthly increase. As for imports, they decreased 0.7%.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a result, Canada&#8217;s merchandise trade surplus with the world widened from $2.2 billion in April to $5.3 billion in May, the largest trade surplus since August 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Agency said total exports reached $68.4 billion, the fifth consecutive monthly increase and the 10th gain over the past 12 months. Total imports decreased slightly to $63.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>On a per country basis, exports to countries other than the United States were up 10.6% compared with April, reaching a record-high $15.5 billion. Imports from those countries were down 2.3% in May. Following the record $10.7 billion deficit observed in April, the merchandise trade deficit with countries other than the United States narrowed to $8.6 billion in May.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to the United States increased by 2.4% in May, largely because of higher exports of crude oil. Meanwhile, imports from the United States edged up 0.3%. As a result, Canada&#8217;s trade surplus with the United States widened from $12.9 billion in April to $14.0 billion in May, another record high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada announced that Canada&#8217;s merchandise exports rose 4.1% in May, compared with April, a fifth consecutive monthly increase. As for imports, they decreased 0.7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[118,394],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-custom-brokerage","tag-canada-en","tag-surplus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}