How dependent is Canada on the United States?

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A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

• The United States sells 11.3% of what the world exports of trucks; next come Mexico (19.7%), Germany (7.6%) and China (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 11 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 9% of what the world exports of auto parts; next come Germany (14.5%), China (12.1%) and Mexico (9.5%). The rest of the world exported 32.1 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 61.9 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 9.3% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Saudi Arabia (14.3%), Russia (9.5%) and United Arab Emirates (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 98.7 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 22.2% of what the world exports of precious metal scrap; next come Indonesia (15.7%), Belgium (5.5%) and United Kingdom (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 4.8 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 30.3% of what the world exports of turbojets and gas turbines; next come United Kingdom (14.5%), France (10%) and Hong Kong (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 31.8 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 15.8% of what the world exports of spark-ignition engines; next come Germany (11.5%), Mexico (8.8%) and Japan (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 10.3 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 8.1% of what the world exports of tractors; next come Mexico (15.9%), Germany (14.8%) and China (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 20.4 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 30.1% of what the world exports of aircraft parts; next come United Kingdom (11.8%), France (10.8%) and Germany (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 23.6 times what Canada buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 13.2% of what the world exports of centrifuges and filters; next come Germany (15.2%), China (14.5%) and Mexico (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 37.9 times what Canada buys from the United States.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Canada is the United States’ 1st-largest customer, with 13.9% of its exports.

• Trade between Canada and the United States
• Who does Canada rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Canada on China
• Dependence of Canada on Brazil
• Dependence of Canada on Switzerland
• Dependence of Canada on Ireland
• Dependence of Canada on Portugal
• Dependence of Canada on Mexico
• Dependence of Canada on Sweden
• Trade profile of Canada
• Trade profile of the United States
• All countries

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.