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February 07, 2017NOVA SCOTIA INTERNATIONAL MERCHANDISE TRADE DECEMBER and ANNUAL 2016 DECEMBER
CUSTOMS BASIS
Unadjusted
YTD - Selected Commodities
In Nova Scotia for January-December 2016, merchandise exports ($5.224 billion) decreased $122.4 million over the Jan-Dec 2015 exports ($5.346 billion). Increases in consumer, fishing, motor vehicles/parts and other exports were not sufficient to offset declines in chemicals, forestry and energy products.
Year-to-date (YTD ) results for:
- Energy products have decreased from $226 million to $85 million;
- Forestry products have decreased from $671 million to $595 million;
- Chemicals, plastics and rubber products have decreased from $335 million to $299 million;
- Consumer products have increased from $1.283 billion to $1.3696 billion;
- Farm, fishing and intermediate food products increased from $883 million to $898 million;
- Motor vehicles and parts increased from $1.259 billion to $1.277 billion;
- the remaining commodities have increased from $689 million to $700 million.
YTD by Province
In Jan-Dec 2016, Nova Scotia ranked sixth from among the provinces in growth of domestic exports. Year-to-date exports decreased 2.3 per cent over the same period last year. Canadian exports are down 2.7 per cent. Nova Scotia's non-energy exports have increased 0.4 per cent over Jan-Dec 2015. Nationally, non-energy exports are up 0.8 per cent with Nova Scotia ranking 6th among the provinces.
ANNUAL
CUSTOMS BASIS
Unadjusted
In 2005 Nova Scotia exported $5,6 billion worth of goods to the international market. In 2012, Nova Scotia recorded an export value low of $3.835 billion. Since then exports have increased to $5.346 in 2015, only to fall back to $5.224 in 2016.
Excluding Energy Products, in 2005 Nova Scotia exported $4.234 billion worth of goods and in 2016 Nova Scotia exported $5.139 billion worth of goods. Nova Scotia export trade has generally expanded over the 2005-2016 period.
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Statistics Canada NOTES
The old CANSIM tables 228-0001 to 228-0003, 228-0033, 228-0034, 228-0041 to 228-0043 and 228-0047 to 228-0057 were replaced by tables 228-0058 to 228-0068.
Publication: Canada's Balance of International Payments (Catalogue number 67-001-X)
These data are available in the Canadian international merchandise trade database.
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