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Where Your Province Meets the World

Explore your province or territory's goods trade with the world: its biggest customers, overseas suppliers, leading product sections, and changing relationships.

Goods trade only, in Canadian dollars. Exports are counted by province of origin (where goods were produced) and imports by province of clearance, which does not necessarily show where goods entered or were used.

01Three Findings From This View

    02Trading partners

    Lines:

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    Lines show trading relationships, not physical shipping routes.

    These figures track reported goods trade. Exports are credited to the province where goods were produced; imports to the province where they cleared customs, which may not be where they were used.

    03What it trades

    04One relationship, both directions

    Choose a partner on the map or in the list to see both directions of trade with it.

    05How It Has Changed

    06How Concentrated Is It?

    07What If One Relationship Changed?

    08Compare Two Provinces

    09Explore a Country

    Which provinces and territories have the strongest goods-trade relationship with one country? Choose a country to rank every province or territory by it.

    10Fact Sheet, Downloads and Embeds

    11Canada at a Glance, 2025

    Canada's domestic goods exports were C$720.8B in 2025 and imports were C$788.9B, in nominal Canadian dollars.

    Largest export markets, 2025

    #CountryExportsShare
    1United StatesC$517.3B71.8%
    2United KingdomC$45.7B6.3%
    3ChinaC$34.4B4.8%
    4JapanC$14.4B2.0%
    5NetherlandsC$8.8B1.2%
    6MexicoC$8.5B1.2%
    7GermanyC$7.8B1.1%
    8South KoreaC$6.9B1.0%
    9FranceC$4.6B0.6%
    10IndiaC$3.8B0.5%

    Largest exporting provinces and territories, 2025

    #Province or territoryExportsShare
    1OntarioC$266.0B36.9%
    2AlbertaC$178.0B24.7%
    3QuebecC$117.6B16.3%
    4British ColumbiaC$54.7B7.6%
    5SaskatchewanC$43.6B6.0%
    6ManitobaC$19.6B2.7%
    7New BrunswickC$16.0B2.2%
    8Newfoundland and LabradorC$13.7B1.9%
    9Nova ScotiaC$6.6B0.9%
    10Prince Edward IslandC$2.5B0.4%

    12Methods, Definitions and Sources

    What is counted. Goods only, in nominal Canadian dollars, from Statistics Canada table 12-10-0173-01 (customs basis, annual). Services, investment and interprovincial trade are not included.

    Where trade is assigned. Exports are domestic exports: goods grown, produced, extracted or manufactured in Canada (including goods of foreign origin materially transformed in Canada), credited to the province or territory of origin. Re-exports are not included. Imports are credited to the province of clearance: the province whose customs office cleared the goods, which may not be where they entered or were used. Statistics Canada notes that Canada can appear as a country of origin for its own imports when Canadian goods return unchanged.

    Products. The 12 sections of the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) used in the table. There is no finer product detail in this table, and no monthly data. Values are published in thousands of dollars, so totals may not equal the sum of their parts.

    Separate from the U.S. view. Canadian and U.S. figures use different sources, definitions and currencies, so this page keeps its own rankings. We do not combine them or derive province-to-state flows.

    Calculations. Shares use the official matching total, not only the partners shown. Percentage change is not shown when the earlier value is zero or missing; a change in share is given in percentage points. The top-three share is the three largest partners' combined share. The concentration index (Herfindahl-Hirschman, 0 to 1) is the sum of squared partner or product shares: near 0 for widely spread trade, 1 when everything goes to one partner. A substantial partner is one with at least 1% of the total unless you change the cutoff. Specialization is a product's share of this province or territory's exports divided by its share of Canada's exports. Export-mix similarity is the cosine similarity of two provinces' product-share vectors, from 0 (nothing in common) to 1 (identical mix), at the NAPCS section level for the latest full year. Findings are generated from fixed rules; a partner's contribution to a change is an accounting observation, not evidence of a cause, and growth rates are not reported for partners below C$10 million in the earlier period. Scenarios are simple arithmetic and hold every other flow unchanged.

    Missing values. No reported trade is shown as a dash, not as zero. Partner names and groupings are the source's own.

    Data versions and updates

    Data: annual figures through 2025. Retrieved from the source October 26, 2026; dataset version cn-v20261026. Each release is kept as a dated snapshot so a link can be frozen; the Share panel offers a live link or a snapshot link.

    DateVersionChange
    2026-10-26cn-v20261026First release.

    Sources

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    Related: Where Your State Meets the World (U.S. states) · US Tariff Revenue Tracker · US Tariff History · Where America's Income Is Moving

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