Supply and Use Tables
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The Supply-and-Use Tables (SUTs) provide estimates of interprovincial as well as international trade of products for Canada and each province and territory. The SUTs are the basis of the Trade of Culture and Sport Products (TCSP) estimates.
Estimates of international trade in the SUTs are compiled using BOP trade of services and international merchandise trade data. The data are typically compiled at the national level and then are allocated to provinces and territories within the SUTs using production and consumption data. This national compilation approach is taken because the monitoring of international trade, and thus collection of data, is concentrated in jurisdictions with borders, airports or sea ports. However, just because a product enters or leaves the country through a certain jurisdiction does not mean the same jurisdiction imported or exported the product. The additional supply and demand information available from the SUT compilation process enables international trade to be allocated to the provinces and territories.
Interprovincial trade (i.e. trade across provincial or territorial borders) is not measured and controlled in the same manner as international trade. Therefore, estimates of interprovincial trade in the SUTs are calculated using data from various administrative and survey sources including information from producers and wholesalers.
Preliminary BOP and international merchandise trade data are used to derive estimates of international trade for reference years where there is no official SUT.
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