Canada Manufacturing Sales

Last Release

Jul 31, 2025

Actual

2.5

Units In

0.3

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Sep 24, 2025

Time to Release

8 Days 12 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
21.7 Jun 2020	-27.5 Apr 2020	0.32 %	1981-2025	Statistics Canada

In Canada, Manufacturing Sales provides a current 'snapshot' of sales of goods manufactured values by the Canadian manufacturing sector, enabling analysis of the state of the Canadian economy, as well as the health of specific industries in the short- to medium-term.

Latest Updates

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%.