canadian exports

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Ottawa should end obsession with trade diversification

The United States has consistently accounted for approximately 75 per cent of Canada’s merchandise exports over the past three decades.


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Three ‘hard truths’ about Canada’s trade

Energy alone supplied 27 per cent of Canada’s merchandise exports—and 23 per cent of total exports—last year.


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Canada needs more major trading partners beyond China and the U.S.

China still only represents five per cent of our exports.


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President Donald Trump has vowed to renegotiate NAFTA, which he calls “a disaster.” But before he tears up the trade deal, let’s take a moment to take stock of why NAFTA was created.


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The U.S. is considering an import tax, of sorts, that would make U.S. exports more profitable and make imports to the U.S. more expensive.


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A mercantilist policy that simple-mindedly favours exports and discourages imports inevitably ends up suppressing real wages.

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Market opportunities will improve for Canadian exports, and improved foreign access to Canada’s dairy and poultry sectors will lower costs of these products for Canadian consumers.