US Shutdown Leaves Canada in the Dark on Major Chunk of Exports

Canada’s statistics agency says it hasn’t received any data on US imports of Canadian goods for September, raising the possibility that it won’t be able to proceed with a scheduled release of trade figures on Nov 4.

Government agencies collaborate to share information on the shipment of goods across borders. But when the US government began a partial shutdown on Oct. 1, “no data on Canada’s exports to the United States for September 2025 had been received,” Cristobal D’Alessio, a spokesperson for Statistics Canada, said by email.

Without those inputs, the agency won’t be able to calculate key trade metrics ...