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How dependent is China on Canada?

In 2024, Canada sold $28.5 billion to China, 1.3% of its imports, ranking 23rd among its suppliers. Its share was 1.3% in 2019 and 2.5% in 1995. In 3 products it sells more than 50% of what China buys of them (in 3, more than 75%); what China buys from Canada in those products (dominated value) adds up to $3.4 billion, 0.16% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
1.3%
Value imported
$28.5billion
Rank among its suppliers
23rd
Products where it sells over 50%
3
Products where it sells over 75%
3
Dominated value
$3.4billion
Share of total imports
0.2%

Trend

Trend in shares

Canada went from 2.5% to 1.3% of what China buys

Share (%)

  • Canada 1.3%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19953,3432.5%9
19963,1862.3%11
19972,1211.5%15
19982,2871.7%15
19992,2341.5%16
20003,1301.5%16
20013,5961.6%14
20023,4701.3%15
20034,2631.2%19
20046,5241.4%17
20057,0751.3%18
20067,4161.1%21
20079,8981.2%21
200810,9891.1%20
200910,7041.2%21
201013,7801.2%21
201118,6081.3%20
201220,6141.4%18
201321,4241.4%17
201418,9681.2%21
201519,8101.5%18
201616,7431.3%21
201718,9301.2%23
201823,3891.3%20
201921,4881.3%21
202020,2081.2%19
202124,6071.1%23
202229,8761.3%21
202331,8421.5%20
202428,4591.3%23

Products where Canada sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Rapeseed (canola)Canada95.3%over 75%Russia · 3.3%$3 billion
Semi-chemical wood pulpCanada78.6%over 75%New Zealand · 5.5%$449 million
Oilseed floursCanada92.5%over 75%Estonia · 2.4%$7 million

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%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

  • Canada sells 32% of what the world exports of rapeseed (canola); next come Australia (22.7%), Ukraine (14.7%) and France (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 3 times what China buys from Canada.
  • Canada sells 47.8% of what the world exports of semi-chemical wood pulp; next come Sweden (10.8%), Finland (8.6%) and Estonia (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 2.2 times what China buys from Canada.
  • Canada sells 1.2% of what the world exports of oilseed flours; next come United States (45.5%), Nigeria (8.4%) and Netherlands (6.8%). The rest of the world exported 156.2 times what China buys from Canada.

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

Seen from Canada

China is Canada’s 2nd-largest customer, with 5.2% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.