Canadian International Merchandise Trade (Customs Basis)

Internationally traded merchandise of economy, category

Internationally traded merchandise refers to goods exchanged between resident and non-resident through transaction such as sales, barter, gifts or grants. It includes imports and exports of goods.

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Broad Economic Categories (BEC4)
• Broad Economic Categories (BEC4), aggregate variant for broad categories of goods
• Harmonized System (HS) Sections for commodities
• Natural resources and international trades
• Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) 2001
• Variant of NAPCS 2017 - Merchandise import and export accounts, Extension Variant with Grains
• Variant of NAPCS Canada 2022 Version 1.0 - Merchandise import and export accounts (regrouping variant)