OTTAWA (Staff) – During the first seven months of the year, exports from the Canadian agriculture and fisheries industries added almost $3 billion to the Canadian trade balance of payments.
It was a half-billion-dollar improvement on last year’s performance.
Statistics Canada reported that agriculture and fisheries products exports to the end of July totalled $9.8 billion, up 12 percent from the same period a year ago.
The almost $3 billion in food trade surplus represented one-quarter of the country’s $12-billion trade surplus recorded during the first seven months.
