What this covers
Place: Canadian manufacturing
Time covered: 1988 to 1996; Statistics Canada review published 2015
What this does not prove
This is a study estimate for that past period. It includes both sides of the trade deal. It is not a 13.8% gain in Canada’s GDP, a gain each year or a forecast for today. Some plants shrank or closed.
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Empirical Evidence from Canadian Firm-level Data on the Relationship Between Trade and Productivity Performance ↗
Statistics Canada · 2015-06
Where to look: Sections 2 and 3.1; table 6
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