Reports and publications: Office of the Chief Economist
Read all the latest trade and economic reports and publications from the Office of the Chief Economist.
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- Canada’s State of Trade
- Annual trade reports
- Quarterly economic and trade reports
- Monthly trade reports
- International investment
- Inclusive trade
- Global value chains
- Trade diversification
- Impacts of trade agreements
Canada’s State of Trade
- Canada’s State of Trade 2025: Small and medium enterprises taking on the export challenge
- Archived - Canada’s State of Trade 2024: Supply chains
- Archived - Canada’s State of Trade 2023: Inclusive trade
- Archived - Canada’s State of Trade 2022: The benefits of free trade agreements
- Archived - Canada’s State of Trade 2021: A closer look at foreign direct investment (FDI)
Annual trade reports
Quarterly economic and trade reports
We’ve updated the way we title the quarterly reports. They are now titled by the season of publication (e.g., Winter 2026) instead of the data timeframe.
- Spring 2026
- Archived - Winter 2026
- Archived - 2025 - Quarter 2
- Archived - 2025 - Quarter 1
- Archived - 2024 - Quarter 4
- Archived - 2024 - Quarter 3
- Archived - 2024 - Quarter 2
- Archived - 2024 - Quarter 1
- Archived - 2023 - Quarter 4
- Archived - 2023 - Quarter 3
- Archived - 2023 - Quarter 2
- Archived - 2023 - Quarter 1
- Archived - 2022 - Quarter 4
- Archived - 2022 - Quarter 3
- Archived - 2022 - Quarter 2
- Archived - 2022 - Quarter 1
Monthly trade reports
- February 2026
- Archived - January 2026
- Archived - December 2025
- Archived - November 2025
- Archived - October 2025
- Archived - September 2025
- Archived - August 2025
- Archived - July 2025
- Archived - June 2025
- Archived - May 2025
- Archived - April 2025
- Archived - March 2025
- Archived - February 2025
- Archived - January 2025
- Archived - December 2024
- Archived - November 2024
- Archived - October 2024
- Archived - September 2024
- Archived - August 2024
International investment
- 2025-12 - Key drivers of FDI location: Theoretical perspectives and recent global trends
- Archived - 2024-01 - Reshoring trend? What the evidence shows
- Archived - 2023-06 - Understanding Canada's performance on the OECD's FDI regulatory restrictiveness index
- Archived - 2021-04 - Canada’s performance as measured by the World Bank’s ease of doing business index
- Archived - 2021-02 - Explaining the volatility of foreign direct investment flows
Key facts about Canada’s competitiveness for foreign direct investment
- December 2025
- Archived - September 2025
- Archived - May 2025
- Archived - January 2025
- Archived - November 2024
- Archived - May 2024
- Archived - May 2023
Inclusive trade
The impact of women in trade
- Archived - 2022-12 - Summary of “Closing the gender gap: Identifying women’s exporting success using firm-level data for Canada”, a presentation at the WTO World Trade Congress on Gender
- Archived - 2020-04 - Women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and trade barriers
- Archived - 2019-10 - Women-owned exporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
The impact of Indigenous Peoples in trade
- 2024-09 - Atāmitowin: Identifying and overcoming challenges facing Indigenous exporters
- Archived - 2023-09 - Adàwe: Export experiences of Indigenous entrepreneurs
The impact of other under-represented groups in trade
- Archived - 2021-02 - Immigrant-led small and medium-sized enterprise exporters in Canada
The impact of small and medium-sized enterprises in trade
- 2024-01 - Characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises exporters in Canada
- Archived - 2023-07 - Canada’s environmental and clean technology sector: 2021
Global value chains
- Archived - 2022-07 - The position and length of Canadian supply chains
- Archived - 2021-11 - Identification of vulnerable Canadian imports
- Archived - 2020-06 - Vulnerability of Canadian industries to disruptions in global supply chains
Trade diversification
- 2025-07 - Export performance and longevity of new Canadian exporters between 2005 and 2018
- Archived - 2022-01 - Price or quantity effect? The impacts of the pandemic on Canadian trade
Growing Canada’s exports to overseas markets by 50%
Impacts of trade agreements
- 2025-12 - Economic Impact Assessment of a Canada-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)
- 2024-11 - Economic impact of the Canada–Peru Free Trade Agreement, 15th anniversary
- Archived - 2024-01 - Measuring the firm-level impact of the Canadian Technology Accelerator program
- Archived - 2023-12 - The growth of supply chain trade within the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Archived - 2023-06 - Canada’s trade performance under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) after three years: Has the CPTPP delivered on its promise?
- Archived - 2023-04 - Economic impact of the Canada–Chile Free Trade Agreement: 25th anniversary
- Archived - 2022-09 - CETA@5: Delivering trade benefits during unprecedented times
- Archived - 2022-08 - Economic impact of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
- Archived - 2020-12 - Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement: Economic impact assessment
- Archived - 2020-02 - The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement: Economic impact assessment
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