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US Exposure Monitor

How exposed is Canada's trade to the United States — and is that exposure changing?

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US Exposure Monitor

What this release changed

A dated check has been recorded since the first reading — see the watch, below, for what changed, what held, and what remains unresolved.

What arrives next

WhenWhat arrivesWhat it can and cannot show
2026-09-08 date stated in the documentCanada's counter-tariffs become legally effectiveLegally effective on this date under the Department of Finance Canada's own published schedule. This record has not yet observed duties assessed or collected on shipments.
2026-10-06 issuer-stated dateStatistics Canada's monthly trade record for August
Period covered: 2026-08-01 — 2026-08-31
  • Only partly after the United States duties (2026-08-22)
  • Ends before Canada's counter-tariffs (2026-09-08)
The record's own next test of whether the United States share holds its July low. The reading beside this row states how its period sits against each action; this note states no relation of its own. A single month is not a trend, and no reading here attributes a movement to any action.
no date pinnedThe first trade record covering the September reference month
Period covered: 2026-09-01 — 2026-09-30
No source this record has captured pins a release date for the September reference month.
  • Entirely after the United States duties (2026-08-22)
  • Only partly after Canada's counter-tariffs (2026-09-08)
Nothing in this record separates price from volume, or one country's action from the other's.
ChangedLast checked 2026-09-03Evidence through 2026-09-04Receipt for this Monitor — sources, method, limitations

This is the Monitor's first maintained reading. Every monthly row now carries the July reference month that Statistics Canada published at the start of September, checked against the first reading rather than restated; the daily truck row is the one exception, because the issuer has not updated its own table since the first reading. The share of Canada's goods exports going to the United States fell to the lowest level this record holds, and the month's fall ended a run of consecutive monthly rises in the United States-bound level. Every observation on this page still ends before the date the United States duties became legally effective, and before the date Canada's counter-tariffs become legally effective, so no effect of either can be observed here and none is claimed. No institution publishes a continuous measure of what those actions actually cover.

8 sections, one question each. Select a card for its evidence.

State matrix

Headline US export shareState The United States receives most of Canada's goods exports, and its share over the latest twelve months is the lowest this record holds
Domain
Headline US export share
State
The United States receives most of Canada's goods exports, and its share over the latest twelve months is the lowest this record holds
Direction
Confidence basis
Directly observed: the monthly share of total merchandise exports going to the United States, restated from Statistics Canada's international trade in goods release and compared against the previous reading.
Distance to target
No registered target or benchmark
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month. That August reference month is the first with any day on or after August 22, 2026, the date the duties became legally effective under the proclamations -- but only its last ten days fall on or after that date and its first twenty-one precede it, so it is only partly after the duties, not entirely after them. The first reference month falling entirely after that date is September 2026, and this record holds no issuer-stated release date for it.
Trigger
A further month that moves the share away from its low, or a revision that changes an earlier month's reading.
Limitation
This reading is checked against the first reading, not against a long maintained history. The observation itself ends before the duties became legally effective, so no tariff effect can be read from it.
Sectoral compositionState A small number of major sectors carry nearly all of Canada's exports to the United States
Domain
Sectoral composition
State
A small number of major sectors carry nearly all of Canada's exports to the United States
Direction
Confidence basis
Directly observed: a controlled slice of major industry sectors within Statistics Canada's international trade by industry table; not every sector is restated (see limitation).
Distance to target
No registered target or benchmark
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Trigger
The next release, or a future update fetching the remaining unfetched industries.
Limitation
This section fetches four sectors; the remainder, including an ambiguous Utilities entry, is not enumerated. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
CUSMA qualificationState Most exports and roughly half of imports already qualify under the trade agreement
Domain
CUSMA qualification
State
Most exports and roughly half of imports already qualify under the trade agreement
Direction
Confidence basis
Directly observed: the monthly share of exports and imports qualifying under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, from Statistics Canada's trade-under-CUSMA table. This is the closest observable this record holds to the tariff-status gap stated below; it narrows that gap without closing it.
Distance to target
No registered target or benchmark
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Trigger
The next release, or any change in which goods qualify under the agreement.
Limitation
Trade-agreement qualification is not a duty assessment, a tariff-preference utilization measure, or an effective tariff rate. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
Origin-versus-export routingState Most imports recorded as coming from the United States also originate there, with a smaller routed-through share
Domain
Origin-versus-export routing
State
Most imports recorded as coming from the United States also originate there, with a smaller routed-through share
Direction
Confidence basis
Directly observed: the gap between where an import is recorded as exported from and where it is recorded as originating, from Statistics Canada's country-of-origin trade table.
Distance to target
No registered target or benchmark
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Trigger
The next release, or a sustained widening or narrowing of the gap.
Limitation
A gap between origin and export country describes a shipment route; it asserts nothing about tariff evasion or transshipment intent. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
Export price and volumeState The record separates how much of any export-value change is price and how much is volume
Domain
Export price and volume
State
The record separates how much of any export-value change is price and how much is volume
Direction
Confidence basis
Directly observed: fixed-weighted export price and volume indexes on a customs basis, seasonally adjusted, from Statistics Canada's international trade price and volume tables.
Distance to target
No registered target or benchmark
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Trigger
The next release, or a divergence opening between the two indexes.
Limitation
Only the fixed-weighted indexes are fetched; an alternative weighting and the quarterly sibling table are not. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
Daily truck crossingsState A minority of trucks entering Canada carry United States plates, read daily rather than monthly
Domain
Daily truck crossings
State
A minority of trucks entering Canada carry United States plates, read daily rather than monthly
Direction
Confidence basis
Directly observed: the daily count of trucks entering Canada and the share that are United States-plated, from the Canada Border Services Agency's daily entry table, aggregated to a monthly average for this page.
Distance to target
No registered target or benchmark
Next release
Next release: not stated. The issuer has not updated this table since before the first reading; the next monthly aggregate point is added when new days accrue.
Trigger
A sustained move in the United States-plated share, or the series reaching a complete month after the duties became legally effective.
Limitation
The first monthly bucket is a partial month and is not a trend point. This row did not move at this reading: the issuer's own daily table still ends on the same day it ended at the first reading, so the monthly average shown for its last complete month is unchanged. It remains the Monitor's only row whose latest observation falls after the proclamations were signed, and it still does not reach the date the duties became legally effective.
Provinces and statesState For every province, one United States state buys more of its domestic exports than any other -- and how much of a province's domestic-export sales to the United States that one state accounts for varies widely from province to province. Domestic exports leave out goods shipped onward through Canada, so this is a narrower total than the Canada-level export share reported elsewhere on this Monitor
Domain
Provinces and states
State
For every province, one United States state buys more of its domestic exports than any other -- and how much of a province's domestic-export sales to the United States that one state accounts for varies widely from province to province. Domestic exports leave out goods shipped onward through Canada, so this is a narrower total than the Canada-level export share reported elsewhere on this Monitor
Direction
Confidence basis
Directly observed: each province's exports to each individual United States state, all product sections combined, from Statistics Canada's provincial and state trade table. The largest state and its share are identified for every province; Canada-level merchandise trade by tariff-classification section is also read from the same table.
Distance to target
No registered target or benchmark
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Trigger
The next release, updating every province's exports-by-state figures for a new month, or a province's largest destination changing.
Limitation
This province-by-state reading uses Statistics Canada's 'domestic exports' figures, which leave out goods shipped onward through Canada without being made here. That is a different, narrower total than the Canada-level export share reported elsewhere on this Monitor, and the two are never added together. A leftover category the table calls 'Other states' is not counted as a single state when finding each province's biggest customer. Where two states are exactly tied for largest in a province, this record refuses to break the tie and states that no single largest destination exists that month; no tie occurs in this reading. The full breakdown by product type, province, and state together is still not fetched. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
The tariff-status gapState No institution publishes a continuous, machine-readable measure of tariff coverage or effective rates
Domain
The tariff-status gap
State
No institution publishes a continuous, machine-readable measure of tariff coverage or effective rates
Direction
Confidence basis
Absence, not a measurement: the operative tariff documents state rates, scopes, and effective dates, but no consolidated official series states what share of exports is actually tariffed, at what effective rate, once qualification, classification, exclusions, and stacking rules are applied.
Distance to target
No registered target or benchmark
Next release
No scheduled release closes this gap; the trade-agreement qualification row above narrows it without closing it, and the dated tariff-actions record on this site states the operative documents directly.
Trigger
Either government publishing a continuous, openly licensed tariff-coverage series, or customs releasing duty-assessed values beside trade values on a compatible classification.
Limitation
Any stated coverage percentage beyond what a government has itself published would be an outside model, not a reading of this record.
DomainStateDirectionConfidence basisDistance to targetNext releaseTriggerLimitation
Headline US export shareThe United States receives most of Canada's goods exports, and its share over the latest twelve months is the lowest this record holdsDirectly observed: the monthly share of total merchandise exports going to the United States, restated from Statistics Canada's international trade in goods release and compared against the previous reading.No registered target or benchmarkNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month. That August reference month is the first with any day on or after August 22, 2026, the date the duties became legally effective under the proclamations -- but only its last ten days fall on or after that date and its first twenty-one precede it, so it is only partly after the duties, not entirely after them. The first reference month falling entirely after that date is September 2026, and this record holds no issuer-stated release date for it.A further month that moves the share away from its low, or a revision that changes an earlier month's reading.This reading is checked against the first reading, not against a long maintained history. The observation itself ends before the duties became legally effective, so no tariff effect can be read from it.
Sectoral compositionA small number of major sectors carry nearly all of Canada's exports to the United StatesDirectly observed: a controlled slice of major industry sectors within Statistics Canada's international trade by industry table; not every sector is restated (see limitation).No registered target or benchmarkNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, or a future update fetching the remaining unfetched industries.This section fetches four sectors; the remainder, including an ambiguous Utilities entry, is not enumerated. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
CUSMA qualificationMost exports and roughly half of imports already qualify under the trade agreementDirectly observed: the monthly share of exports and imports qualifying under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, from Statistics Canada's trade-under-CUSMA table. This is the closest observable this record holds to the tariff-status gap stated below; it narrows that gap without closing it.No registered target or benchmarkNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, or any change in which goods qualify under the agreement.Trade-agreement qualification is not a duty assessment, a tariff-preference utilization measure, or an effective tariff rate. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
Origin-versus-export routingMost imports recorded as coming from the United States also originate there, with a smaller routed-through shareDirectly observed: the gap between where an import is recorded as exported from and where it is recorded as originating, from Statistics Canada's country-of-origin trade table.No registered target or benchmarkNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, or a sustained widening or narrowing of the gap.A gap between origin and export country describes a shipment route; it asserts nothing about tariff evasion or transshipment intent. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
Export price and volumeThe record separates how much of any export-value change is price and how much is volumeDirectly observed: fixed-weighted export price and volume indexes on a customs basis, seasonally adjusted, from Statistics Canada's international trade price and volume tables.No registered target or benchmarkNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, or a divergence opening between the two indexes.Only the fixed-weighted indexes are fetched; an alternative weighting and the quarterly sibling table are not. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
Daily truck crossingsA minority of trucks entering Canada carry United States plates, read daily rather than monthlyDirectly observed: the daily count of trucks entering Canada and the share that are United States-plated, from the Canada Border Services Agency's daily entry table, aggregated to a monthly average for this page.No registered target or benchmarkNext release: not stated. The issuer has not updated this table since before the first reading; the next monthly aggregate point is added when new days accrue.A sustained move in the United States-plated share, or the series reaching a complete month after the duties became legally effective.The first monthly bucket is a partial month and is not a trend point. This row did not move at this reading: the issuer's own daily table still ends on the same day it ended at the first reading, so the monthly average shown for its last complete month is unchanged. It remains the Monitor's only row whose latest observation falls after the proclamations were signed, and it still does not reach the date the duties became legally effective.
Provinces and statesFor every province, one United States state buys more of its domestic exports than any other -- and how much of a province's domestic-export sales to the United States that one state accounts for varies widely from province to province. Domestic exports leave out goods shipped onward through Canada, so this is a narrower total than the Canada-level export share reported elsewhere on this MonitorDirectly observed: each province's exports to each individual United States state, all product sections combined, from Statistics Canada's provincial and state trade table. The largest state and its share are identified for every province; Canada-level merchandise trade by tariff-classification section is also read from the same table.No registered target or benchmarkNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, updating every province's exports-by-state figures for a new month, or a province's largest destination changing.This province-by-state reading uses Statistics Canada's 'domestic exports' figures, which leave out goods shipped onward through Canada without being made here. That is a different, narrower total than the Canada-level export share reported elsewhere on this Monitor, and the two are never added together. A leftover category the table calls 'Other states' is not counted as a single state when finding each province's biggest customer. Where two states are exactly tied for largest in a province, this record refuses to break the tie and states that no single largest destination exists that month; no tie occurs in this reading. The full breakdown by product type, province, and state together is still not fetched. The observation ends before the duties became legally effective.
The tariff-status gapNo institution publishes a continuous, machine-readable measure of tariff coverage or effective ratesAbsence, not a measurement: the operative tariff documents state rates, scopes, and effective dates, but no consolidated official series states what share of exports is actually tariffed, at what effective rate, once qualification, classification, exclusions, and stacking rules are applied.No registered target or benchmarkNo scheduled release closes this gap; the trade-agreement qualification row above narrows it without closing it, and the dated tariff-actions record on this site states the operative documents directly.Either government publishing a continuous, openly licensed tariff-coverage series, or customs releasing duty-assessed values beside trade values on a compatible classification.Any stated coverage percentage beyond what a government has itself published would be an outside model, not a reading of this record.

Cross-domain tensions

Evidence cutoff: 2026-09-04

Canada's trade with the United States sets prices, jobs, and policy choices across the economy, and the two countries' governments are now applying and answering tariff actions against each other. This view holds the record's own trade tables together in one place: what is directly observed, what a trade-agreement qualification narrows without closing, and what no institution yet measures at all.

8 cited sources · 8 directly observed · 0 correlated or inferred · 1 unresolved

How to read the dates: the evidence cutoff is the date through which Countability checked evidence for this Monitor. Each "as of" date shows when that specific figure was measured. "Oldest member reading" shows the age of the slowest-updating source. How to read the clock →

The watch

A Monitor is a maintained reading: it persists between releases and is re-checked when named evidence arrives. This is its history — every dated check, whether the answer changed or held.

Since the last reading

New periodEvidence 2026-09-03

Third reading, on the July 2026 trade record, and the share set a record. Over the twelve months through July 2026 the United States bought 68.50 per cent of Canada's goods exports, against 74.08 per cent a year earlier -- a one-year fall of 5.58 percentage points. That window is the lowest United States share in the twenty-nine-year monthly record, and unlike the previous low it stands alone: the next-lowest window, ending April 2026, reads 68.99 per cent, half a percentage point higher. The single month is sharper than the window. Exports to the United States fell 6.6 per cent from June to July, ending a run of five straight monthly rises, while exports to every other country together rose 7.4 per cent to the highest monthly level this record holds. In July, 33.7 per cent of Canada's goods exports went somewhere other than the United States. The reallocation is still narrow: 52.7 per cent of the twelve-month rest-of-world rise is the United Kingdom alone, and on the customs record the all-countries unwrought gold, silver and platinum-group-metals series is up 43.9 per cent window on window. Motor vehicles found almost no other buyer -- a 9.7 per cent fall in United States-bound sales against a rest-of-world gain worth 5.6 cents of every dollar lost.

The break deepened rather than held. Through the spring the share sat within a tenth of a point of a low it kept not quite setting; July set it outright, by half a point, and did so through the United States side falling rather than through the rest of the world merely rising. What has not changed is the shape of the reallocation: outside the bullion channel it stays modest, and about seven of every ten export dollars still come from one customer.

The full check

What happened: Statistics Canada published the July 2026 international merchandise trade record on 3 September 2026 at 08:30, its own recorded release time, verified in the issuer's own cube metadata before any figure was read and committed as evidence. Both trade Resolutions were advanced to the 2026-09-04 capture under an explicit supersession chain: 48 publications re-pinned and 92 values re-derived from the newly archived bytes, each publication's series coordinate proven against its own already-published June figures before it was moved. The June and May vintages are retained on the record, superseded and unrewritten.

Limitation: All values are nominal, and partner shares are gross shipment values, not domestic value added; nothing here separates price from volume. Every monthly value behind the window remains revisable, and this release itself restated June. July 2026 ends before 22 August 2026, the date the United States duties became legally effective under the proclamations, and before 8 September 2026, the date Canada's counter-tariffs become legally effective. No month in this reading covers a single day under either measure, so no effect of either can be observed in it, and none is claimed. This record has not yet observed duties assessed or collected on shipments.

Next trigger: The August 2026 trade record, which the issuer's own July release article states is scheduled for 6 October 2026. That August reference month is the first with any day on or after the date the United States duties became legally effective, but only its last ten days fall on or after that date -- it is only partly after the duties, not entirely after them.

  1. 2026-09-03 · New period
    Third reading, on the July 2026 trade record, and the share set a record. Over the twelve months through July 2026 the United States bought 68.50 per cent of Canada's goods exports, against 74.08 per cent a year earlier -- a one-year fall of 5.58 percentage points. That window is the lowest United States share in the twenty-nine-year monthly record, and unlike the previous low it stands alone: the next-lowest window, ending April 2026, reads 68.99 per cent, half a percentage point higher. The single month is sharper than the window. Exports to the United States fell 6.6 per cent from June to July, ending a run of five straight monthly rises, while exports to every other country together rose 7.4 per cent to the highest monthly level this record holds. In July, 33.7 per cent of Canada's goods exports went somewhere other than the United States. The reallocation is still narrow: 52.7 per cent of the twelve-month rest-of-world rise is the United Kingdom alone, and on the customs record the all-countries unwrought gold, silver and platinum-group-metals series is up 43.9 per cent window on window. Motor vehicles found almost no other buyer -- a 9.7 per cent fall in United States-bound sales against a rest-of-world gain worth 5.6 cents of every dollar lost.
  2. 2026-08-26 · First reading

Next evidence

The named releases that could change a row of this Monitor, and what each could change.

Headline US export shareNext release Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month. That August reference month is the first with any day on or after August 22, 2026, the date the duties became legally effective under the proclamations -- but only its last ten days fall on or after that date and its first twenty-one precede it, so it is only partly after the duties, not entirely after them. The first reference month falling entirely after that date is September 2026, and this record holds no issuer-stated release date for it.
Row
Headline US export share
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month. That August reference month is the first with any day on or after August 22, 2026, the date the duties became legally effective under the proclamations -- but only its last ten days fall on or after that date and its first twenty-one precede it, so it is only partly after the duties, not entirely after them. The first reference month falling entirely after that date is September 2026, and this record holds no issuer-stated release date for it.
Could change
A further month that moves the share away from its low, or a revision that changes an earlier month's reading.
Sectoral compositionNext release Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Row
Sectoral composition
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Could change
The next release, or a future update fetching the remaining unfetched industries.
CUSMA qualificationNext release Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Row
CUSMA qualification
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Could change
The next release, or any change in which goods qualify under the agreement.
Origin-versus-export routingNext release Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Row
Origin-versus-export routing
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Could change
The next release, or a sustained widening or narrowing of the gap.
Export price and volumeNext release Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Row
Export price and volume
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Could change
The next release, or a divergence opening between the two indexes.
Daily truck crossingsNext release Next release: not stated. The issuer has not updated this table since before the first reading; the next monthly aggregate point is added when new days accrue.
Row
Daily truck crossings
Next release
Next release: not stated. The issuer has not updated this table since before the first reading; the next monthly aggregate point is added when new days accrue.
Could change
A sustained move in the United States-plated share, or the series reaching a complete month after the duties became legally effective.
Provinces and statesNext release Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Row
Provinces and states
Next release
Next release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.
Could change
The next release, updating every province's exports-by-state figures for a new month, or a province's largest destination changing.
The tariff-status gapNext release No scheduled release closes this gap; the trade-agreement qualification row above narrows it without closing it, and the dated tariff-actions record on this site states the operative documents directly.
Row
The tariff-status gap
Next release
No scheduled release closes this gap; the trade-agreement qualification row above narrows it without closing it, and the dated tariff-actions record on this site states the operative documents directly.
Could change
Either government publishing a continuous, openly licensed tariff-coverage series, or customs releasing duty-assessed values beside trade values on a compatible classification.
2026-10-06Next release Canadian international merchandise trade, August 2026 (Statistics Canada)
Row
2026-10-06
Next release
Canadian international merchandise trade, August 2026 (Statistics Canada)
Could change
The twelve-month U.S. share and whether July's record low holds, the U.S.-bound level after July's fall ended a five-month run of rises, and the direction of the unwrought-precious-metals channel. This is also the first release covering a reference month with any day on or after 22 August 2026, the date the United States duties became legally effective under the proclamations -- but only its last ten days fall on or after that date and its first twenty-one precede it, so the month is only partly after the duties, not entirely after them. The first reference month falling entirely after that date is September 2026, and this record holds no issuer-stated release date for it. Date confirmed: the issuer's own July release article states that August data are scheduled for release on October 6, and that article is captured and pinned in this record.
RowNext releaseWhat it could change
Headline US export shareNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month. That August reference month is the first with any day on or after August 22, 2026, the date the duties became legally effective under the proclamations -- but only its last ten days fall on or after that date and its first twenty-one precede it, so it is only partly after the duties, not entirely after them. The first reference month falling entirely after that date is September 2026, and this record holds no issuer-stated release date for it.A further month that moves the share away from its low, or a revision that changes an earlier month's reading.
Sectoral compositionNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, or a future update fetching the remaining unfetched industries.
CUSMA qualificationNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, or any change in which goods qualify under the agreement.
Origin-versus-export routingNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, or a sustained widening or narrowing of the gap.
Export price and volumeNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, or a divergence opening between the two indexes.
Daily truck crossingsNext release: not stated. The issuer has not updated this table since before the first reading; the next monthly aggregate point is added when new days accrue.A sustained move in the United States-plated share, or the series reaching a complete month after the duties became legally effective.
Provinces and statesNext release: October 6, 2026, the date Statistics Canada's own July release article states for the August reference month.The next release, updating every province's exports-by-state figures for a new month, or a province's largest destination changing.
The tariff-status gapNo scheduled release closes this gap; the trade-agreement qualification row above narrows it without closing it, and the dated tariff-actions record on this site states the operative documents directly.Either government publishing a continuous, openly licensed tariff-coverage series, or customs releasing duty-assessed values beside trade values on a compatible classification.
2026-10-06Canadian international merchandise trade, August 2026 (Statistics Canada)The twelve-month U.S. share and whether July's record low holds, the U.S.-bound level after July's fall ended a five-month run of rises, and the direction of the unwrought-precious-metals channel. This is also the first release covering a reference month with any day on or after 22 August 2026, the date the United States duties became legally effective under the proclamations -- but only its last ten days fall on or after that date and its first twenty-one precede it, so the month is only partly after the duties, not entirely after them. The first reference month falling entirely after that date is September 2026, and this record holds no issuer-stated release date for it. Date confirmed: the issuer's own July release article states that August data are scheduled for release on October 6, and that article is captured and pinned in this record.

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Headline US export share

The share of Canada's total goods exports, on a customs basis, that go to the United States.

Blocked
SeriesLatest valueDate / formula
exports to us$49,459,484,0002026-07-01
exports to all$73,175,629,0002026-07-01
us share pct67.59%2026-07-01 — exports_to_us / exports_to_all * 100

Latest observation: 2026-07-01 — before the proclamations were signed (2026-07-20) and before the duties became legally effective (2026-08-22).

Sectoral composition

Which industry sectors carry Canada's exports to the United States.

SeriesLatest valueDate / formula
exports to us total$47,030,335,2012026-07-01
exports to all total$73,175,632,5852026-07-01
exports to us agriculture$1,432,367,6252026-07-01
exports to us mining$14,400,177,0302026-07-01
exports to us manufacturing$30,056,148,5162026-07-01
exports to us wholesale$762,057,7582026-07-01

Latest observation: 2026-07-01 — before the proclamations were signed (2026-07-20) and before the duties became legally effective (2026-08-22).

Limitation: Four unambiguous top-level NAICS sectors fetched (agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade), covering ~99.4% of exports to the United States at the current vintage (51,710,493,629 of 52,026,563,419 at 2026-06); this is a controlled slice of the cube's 904 industries, not an enumeration of all top-level sectors. The 0.61% residual (316,069,790) is every unfetched NAICS industry, including 'Utilities' -- excluded because two distinct cube members share that exact name and the fetch tool cannot disambiguate them by name alone.

CUSMA qualification

The share of trade with the United States that already qualifies for treatment under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement.

SeriesLatest valueDate / formula
cusma exports$50,485,717,0002026-07-01
total exports$73,175,629,4002026-07-01
cusma export share pct68.99%2026-07-01 — cusma_exports / total_exports * 100
cusma imports$37,691,734,0002026-07-01
total imports$71,965,729,9002026-07-01
cusma import share pct52.37%2026-07-01 — cusma_imports / total_imports * 100

Latest observation: 2026-07-01 — before the proclamations were signed (2026-07-20) and before the duties became legally effective (2026-08-22).

Limitation: Narrows the tariff-status evidence gap this Monitor states separately; does not close it. This is the free-trade-agreement qualification dimension, not a duty assessment, tariff-preference utilization measure, or effective tariff rate.

Origin-versus-export routing

Whether goods entering Canada from the United States were also produced there, or only shipped from there.

SeriesLatest valueDate / formula
imports origin us$32,410,592,0002026-07-01
imports exportedfrom us$40,800,640,0002026-07-01
origin vs export gap$8,390,048,0002026-07-01 — imports_exportedfrom_us - imports_origin_us

Latest observation: 2026-07-01 — before the proclamations were signed (2026-07-20) and before the duties became legally effective (2026-08-22).

Limitation: Separates a shipment route from a rule-of-origin determination; a positive or negative gap asserts nothing about tariff evasion or transshipment intent.

Export price and volume

Whether a change in the dollar value of exports comes from prices or from volumes.

SeriesLatest valueDate / formula
export price index151.3 (index (2017=100))2026-07-01
export volume index105.7 (index (2017=100))2026-07-01

Latest observation: 2026-07-01 — before the proclamations were signed (2026-07-20) and before the duties became legally effective (2026-08-22).

Limitation: Laspeyres fixed-weighted series only; the Paasche-weighted and balance-of-payments-basis alternatives exist in the cube and are not fetched (a documented, single weighting-basis choice, not a claim about StatCan's preferred convention). The quarterly sibling table 12-10-0169-01 is rights-registered but not yet fetched.

Daily truck crossings

The daily count of trucks entering Canada, and the share carrying United States plates — the Monitor's only sub-monthly evidence.

SeriesLatest valueDate / formula
trucks total monthly avg14,329.90 trucks/day2026-07-01 — mean(daily trucks entering Canada, by month)
trucks us plated monthly avg1,811.55 trucks/day2026-07-01 — mean(daily American-plated trucks entering Canada, by month)
trucks us plated share pct12.64%2026-07-01 — trucks_us_plated_monthly_avg / trucks_total_monthly_avg * 100

The series above are labelled by the month they summarize (aggregation bucket START dates); the underlying table's own latest observation is 2026-07-31, restated below.

Latest observation: 2026-07-31 — after the proclamations were signed (2026-07-20) but before the duties became legally effective (2026-08-22).

Limitation: Canada-level aggregate only (2 of 128 x 67 x 5 cube members). The full daily observations are preserved in this record's internal archive; the monthly series below is a controlled aggregation (arithmetic mean of daily counts within the month) for dashboard consistency, not a discard of the daily grain. The first monthly bucket (2025-06) is a 4-day PARTIAL month (2025-06-27 through 2025-06-30, two of them a weekend), not a complete month like every other bucket -- do not read it as a trend point.

Services trade

Canada's total trade in services with the world, read beside the goods rows above. Moved out of the state matrix and into this Monitor's coverage gaps by editorial decision: this table carries no United States-specific partner breakdown, so it is not presented as a United States-exposure reading. The evidence stays acquired and registered on the record, the same as every other row, until United States-partner services data is captured, and it is refreshed at each maintained reading with the goods rows.

SeriesLatest valueDate / formula
services exports$21,039,000,0002026-07-01
services imports$20,732,000,0002026-07-01

Latest observation: 2026-07-01 — before the proclamations were signed (2026-07-20) and before the duties became legally effective (2026-08-22).

Limitation: This table carries no United States-specific partner breakdown; these are Canada's total services trade with the world, read beside the goods rows, not a US-specific services measure.

Provinces and states

Merchandise trade between Canada and the United States by tariff classification section, at the Canada level, plus each province's largest single United States-state destination for domestic exports and that state's share of the province's United States-bound domestic exports. The Canada-level figures in this row read 'total exports' and the province figures read 'domestic exports' -- two different quantities from the same table, never added together or divided by one another.

SeriesLatest valueDate / formula
exports to us$49,459,484,0002026-07-01
imports from us$32,410,592,0002026-07-01

Each province’s largest United States-state destination, domestic exports only

For each province, its largest single U.S.-state domestic-export destination and that state's share of the province's total U.S.-bound domestic exports, all HS sections, single latest reference month. 'Domestic exports' (excludes re-exports) is the only Trade member this cube populates at the provincial level -- the headline United States export share reported elsewhere on this Monitor reads 'Total exports' (includes re-exports), a different quantity, never merged with this row. Both sit on this page, and they do not reconcile: Canada's total exports to the United States for 2026-07-01 are $49,459,484,000, while the ten provinces' domestic exports to the United States sum to $45,568,330,000 -- a difference of $3,891,154,000. That difference is not decomposed here. The two figures differ in the cube's Trade member (total exports include re-exports; domestic exports do not) AND in its geographic coverage (the ten provinces exclude the territories and any province-not-specified member carried at the Canada level), and this record does not apportion the gap between those causes or divide either figure by the other. 'Other states', a residual cube member naming no single jurisdiction, is excluded from the largest-destination search. Where two states are exactly tied for largest in a province, this record refuses to break the tie by list position: it states that no single largest destination exists that month rather than naming whichever member the cube happens to list first. No tie occurs in this reading. Every province's 50 named states plus the District of Columbia and the residual are reconciled against that province's own independently fetched total before any share is derived.

ProvinceTotal to United States (domestic exports)Largest United States-state destinationValueShare of the province’s United States-bound domestic exportsDate
Newfoundland and Labrador$713,757,000New Jersey$246,104,00034.48%2026-07-01
Prince Edward Island$143,832,000New Jersey$23,007,00016.00%2026-07-01
Nova Scotia$398,823,000Massachusetts$90,885,00022.79%2026-07-01
New Brunswick$1,419,660,000Massachusetts$532,022,00037.48%2026-07-01
Quebec$6,372,309,000New York$505,551,0007.93%2026-07-01
Ontario$16,084,231,000Michigan$3,741,743,00023.26%2026-07-01
Manitoba$1,023,895,000Minnesota$188,528,00018.41%2026-07-01
Saskatchewan$2,082,723,000California$445,435,00021.39%2026-07-01
Alberta$14,796,429,000Illinois$6,296,479,00042.55%2026-07-01
British Columbia$2,532,671,000Washington, State$558,531,00022.05%2026-07-01

Latest observation: 2026-07-01 — before the proclamations were signed (2026-07-20) and before the duties became legally effective (2026-08-22).

Limitation: The Canada-level series above are 2 of 15 x 4 x 53 x 22 cube members; the HS-section-by-province-by-state full micro-cut is still not fetched (controlled storage; fetch only what a reading needs). The province x US-state concentration reading above fetches all 15 x 10 x 52 x 1 province-by-state combinations at the all-HS-sections total, on the cube's 'Domestic exports' Trade member -- the only one populated at provincial grain, verified directly against the issuer's own published cube. The headline United States export share reported elsewhere on this Monitor reads 'Total exports', a different, broader quantity never merged with this row's provincial figures.

The tariff-status gap

What no government publication states: the actual tariff coverage and effective rate applied to Canadian exports.

Blocked
Evidence gap

What share of Canada's exports to the United States is actually subject to tariffs right now, and at what effective rates?

What is missing: No official source on either side of the border publishes a continuously updated, machine-readable statement of the tariff status of Canadian exports. The operative documents state rates, scopes, and effective dates, but the duty actually applied to a shipment depends on USMCA qualification, product classification, exclusions, stacking rules, and later modifications — determinations spread across executive orders, proclamations, agency notices, and rulings, with no consolidated official series.

Consequence: The U.S. Exposure Brief shows the export record beside the dated tariff actions, but it cannot state what fraction of U.S.-bound exports is tariffed or at what effective rate — any such coverage percentage would be an outside model, not a reading of the record. Public claims about 'x per cent of exports now face tariffs' rest on estimates whose assumptions are rarely published.

What would close it: Either government publishing a continuously updated, openly licensed series of duty collections or tariff coverage on Canada–U.S. trade at product grain — or customs releasing duty-assessed values beside trade values on a compatible classification.

Directly observed

Unresolved

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