Canadá Manufacturing Sales

Canada’s manufacturing sales rose by 2.5% to CAD 70.3 billion in July 2025, following a 0.3% increase in June, beating an earlier estimate of a 1.8% advance. This marked the strongest increase since January 2023, driven by higher sales of transportation equipment (+8.6%), namely motor vehicles (+11.4%) and motor vehicle parts (+7.2%) as well as increased production of aerospace products and parts (+6.5%). Other significant increases were seen for petroleum and coal products (+6.2%) and primary metals (+3.5%). Meanwhile, sales of chemicals saw the largest decline, falling 2.5% in July. Sales rose in seven provinces in July, led by Ontario (+2.8%) and Quebec (+3.4%). Manitoba (-9.1%) posted the largest decline. On a year-over-year basis, total manufacturing sales were down 1.7%.