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.

On this page

• 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 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

• 2023
• Archived - 2021
• Archived - 2020

Quarterly economic and trade reports

• 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 2025
• Archived - January 2025
• Archived - December 2024
• Archived - November 2024
• Archived - October 2024
• Archived - September 2024
• Archived - August 2024

International investment

• 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

• January 2025
• Archived - November 2024
• Archived - May 2024
• Archived - May 2023
• Archived - May 2022
• Archived - January 2022

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

Trade diversification

• Archived - 2022-01 - Price or quantity effect? The impacts of the pandemic on Canadian trade

Growing Canada’s exports to overseas markets by 50%

• 2024-08 - 2023
• Archived - 2023-04 - 2022
• Archived - 2022-06 - 2021

Impacts of trade agreements

• 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