{"id":433296,"date":"2026-07-07T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/canada-may-trade-balance-4-24-billion-vs-2-85-billion-expected-433296\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:30:08","slug":"canada-may-trade-balance-4-24-billion-vs-2-85-billion-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/canada-may-trade-balance-4-24-billion-vs-2-85-billion-expected-433296\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada May trade balance $4.24 billion vs $2.85 billion expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior was +2.72B (revised to +3.41B)<\/li>\n<li>Exports $77.10B vs $75.16B (revised to $76.4B)<\/li>\n<li>Imports $72.86B vs $72.44B (revised to $73.0B)<\/li>\n<li>Canada&#8217;s trade surplus with the United States widened from $10.3 billion in April to $11.6 billion in May<\/li>\n<li>Canada&#8217;s trade deficit with countries other than the United States widened from $6.9 billion in April to $7.4 billion in May<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a nice tailwind for Q2 growth. The $77 billion exports number is a record though it&#8217;s likely to be short-lived as oil prices have retreated in a big way. Ex energy, exports rose 2.0%. There was also a war-boosted export boom in sulfer and gold sales remained high.<\/p>\n<p>Energy export values are on their way to reverting to the mean, which is going to unwind the surpluses from June and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>On the import side, after reaching a record high in April, total imports edged down 0.2% in<br \/>\nMay. This decrease occurred despite increases in 9 of the 11 product<br \/>\nsections, as lower imports of metal and non-metallic mineral products<br \/>\nmore than offset these gains.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior was +2.72B (revised to +3.41B) Exports $77.10B vs $75.16B (revised to $76.4B) Imports $72.86B vs $72.44B (revised to $73.0B) Canada&#8217;s trade surplus with the United States widened from $10.3 billion in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}