{"id":45342,"date":"2021-05-04T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=45342"},"modified":"2021-05-04T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:07:51","slug":"canadas-trade-balance-turns-to-deficit-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/canadas-trade-balance-turns-to-deficit-in-march\/05\/04\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Trade Balance Turns to Deficit in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Canada&#8217;s imports increased by 5.5% in March, while exports leveled up by 0.3%, data by Statistics Canada showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the Canadian international merchandise trade balance returned to a deficit position, following two consecutive monthly trade surpluses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada registered a trade deficit of CAD 1.1 billion in March, compared with a CAD 1.4-billion surplus in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first quarter (Q1) of the year, exports rose by 8.3% to $152.6 billion, reaching their highest value since Q2 of 2019. Meanwhile, quarterly imports edged up 0.5% to $151 billion in Q1 of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada&#8217;s merchandise trade balance posted a surplus of $1.5 billion in Q1 of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marked the first quarterly trade surplus in Canada since Q4 of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s imports increased by 5.5% in March, while exports leveled up by 0.3%, data by Statistics Canada showed on Tuesday. Accordingly, the Canadian international merchandise trade balance returned to a deficit position, following two consecutive monthly trade surpluses. Canada registered a trade deficit of CAD 1.1 billion in March, compared with a CAD 1.4-billion surplus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6895],"class_list":["post-45342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45343,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45342\/revisions\/45343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}