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How dependent is France on Canada?

In 2024, Canada sold $4 billion to France, 0.54% of its imports, ranking 34th among its suppliers. Its share was 0.51% in 2019 and 0.74% in 1995. In 2 products it sells more than 50% of what France buys of them (in 0, more than 75%); what France buys from Canada in those products (dominated value) adds up to $628 million, 0.08% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
0.5%
Share of its imports from outside the EU
1.2%
Value imported
$4billion
Rank among its suppliers
34th
Products where it sells over 50%
2
Products where it sells over 75%
0
Dominated value
$628million
Share of total imports
0.1%

Trend

Trend in shares

Canada went from 0.74% to 0.54% of what France buys

Share (%)

  • Canada 0.54%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19952,0650.74%21
19961,7670.63%24
19971,5980.59%27
19981,5310.53%30
19991,5130.52%31
20001,7810.57%31
20011,8070.59%30
20021,6420.52%32
20031,8860.51%32
20042,1650.49%32
20052,3970.5%34
20062,6200.48%34
20073,4140.55%34
20083,7120.53%36
20093,1700.58%34
20102,9950.5%36
20113,9090.55%34
20124,0830.62%33
20134,1110.63%32
20143,7100.57%33
20152,7850.5%35
20162,9340.52%31
20173,2390.53%34
20183,2110.49%35
20193,2100.51%36
20203,0080.52%30
20213,5020.5%31
20223,4080.42%37
20234,1980.53%32
20244,0050.54%34

Products where Canada sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Iron oreCanada58%Brazil · 17.8%$577 million
Flight simulators and aircraft launch gearCanada52.6%United States · 20.2%$51 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 4.4% of what the world exports of iron ore; next come Australia (54.2%), Brazil (20.8%) and South Africa (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 277.7 times what France buys from Canada.
  • Canada sells 39.7% of what the world exports of flight simulators and aircraft launch gear; next come United States (13.7%), United Kingdom (9.6%) and Germany (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 28.5 times what France buys from Canada.

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

Seen from Canada

France is Canada’s 11th-largest customer, with 0.73% 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.