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Manufacturing : Fabrication : bilan de l'année 2008

28 Apr 2009

Steep price increases in the oil and primary metals industries in the first half of the year pushed up the total value of sales while volume of sales grew at a slower pace. [...] As a result, the high value of the Canadian dollar in the first half of the year eroded the price advantage of Canadian-made goods versus those of their US counterparts. [...] As in Canada, much of the increase was concentrated in the commodity-based sector in the first half of the year. [...] High prices for energy products in the first half of the year contributed to a year-ending 22.2% jump in sales of petroleum and coal products, the seventh annual increase in a row. [...] Various reasons may have contributed to the noted difference between the two countries, including the composition of key inventory-holding industries in Canada versus the United States, as well as the difference in the share of inventories by the stage of fabrication between the two countries.
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Authors

Kowaluk, Russell

ISBN
9781100125671
Pages
25
Published in
Canada

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