
Following a 2.0% decline in June, Canadian manufacturing sales increased 1.6% to $71.9 billion in July, led primarily by higher sales of food products (+3.1%), petroleum and coal products (+4.6%) and transportation equipment (+2.4%). Meanwhile, sales of paper (-4.6%) and plastics and rubber (-3.4%) products decreased the most.
Sales in constant dollars rose 0.9% in July, while the industrial product price index increased 0.4% month over month.
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