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Trade between Canada and Ecuador

In 2024, Canada exported $641 million to Ecuador and imported $892 million. Canada ran a deficit of $250 million with Ecuador, compared with a surplus of $359 million in 2019. Ecuador was Canada’s 44th largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and Canada was Ecuador’s 9th (2%).

Summary

Canada → Ecuador
$641million
Ecuador → Canada
$892million
Canada’s balance
-$250million

Balance

Canada’s trade balance with Ecuador

Trade between Canada and Ecuador grew 9.1-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Canada’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 0.6
  • Imports 0.9
  • Balance -0.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$97 million$72 million$25 million
1996$71 million$70 million$339 thousand
1997$75 million$102 million-$27 million
1998$144 million$121 million$23 million
1999$101 million$74 million$26 million
2000$74 million$77 million-$3 million
2001$93 million$67 million$26 million
2002$88 million$76 million$12 million
2003$136 million$80 million$56 million
2004$162 million$92 million$70 million
2005$131 million$108 million$23 million
2006$171 million$98 million$73 million
2007$224 million$148 million$75 million
2008$349 million$118 million$231 million
2009$275 million$145 million$130 million
2010$390 million$151 million$239 million
2011$317 million$175 million$142 million
2012$342 million$215 million$127 million
2013$323 million$227 million$95 million
2014$341 million$206 million$135 million
2015$326 million$201 million$124 million
2016$317 million$158 million$159 million
2017$265 million$133 million$132 million
2018$301 million$136 million$165 million
2019$497 million$138 million$359 million
2020$343 million$159 million$184 million
2021$860 million$278 million$583 million
2022$1.1 billion$497 million$566 million
2023$626 million$480 million$147 million
2024$641 million$892 million-$250 million

What they sell each other

What Canada sells to Ecuador

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Wheat$255 million · 39.7%
    770 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  2. Refined petroleum$242 million · 37.7%
    288 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  3. Potash fertilizers$41 million · 6.4%
    117 thousand tonnes
  4. 19 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  5. Polyethylene$5 million · 0.81%
    4 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  6. Newsprint$5 million · 0.73%
    9 thousand tonnes
  7. Spark-ignition engines$3 million · 0.54%
    22 tonnes
  8. Oats$3 million · 0.5%
    11 thousand tonnes
  9. Surveying instruments$3 million · 0.4%
    7 tonnes
  10. 44 tonnes

What Ecuador sells to Canada

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Crude petroleum$513 million · 57.6%
    817 thousand tonnes · Ecuador’s destinations
  2. Cocoa beans$119 million · 13.3%
    15 thousand tonnes · Ecuador’s destinations
  3. Precious metal ore$85 million · 9.5%
    6 thousand tonnes
  4. Cut flowers$39 million · 4.4%
    5 thousand tonnes
  5. Bananas$33 million · 3.7%
    24 thousand tonnes · Ecuador’s destinations
  6. 5 thousand tonnes
  7. Cocoa paste$12 million · 1.3%
    2 thousand tonnes
  8. Plain frozen vegetables$10 million · 1.1%
    5 thousand tonnes
  9. Preserved fruit and nuts$8 million · 0.88%
    3 thousand tonnes
  10. 1 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Vancouver to Guayaquil.

The estimated sea route between Vancouver and Guayaquil is 4,433 nautical miles (8,210 km) long: ≈ 10.5–13 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

It does not cross any major canal or strait.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$1.5 billion · 97.7%
  2. Air$35 million · 2.3%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Ecuador was Canada’s 44th largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and Canada was Ecuador’s 9th (2%).

Ecuador in Canada’s trade
0.1%
Ecuador’s rank among Canada’s partners
44th
Canada in Ecuador’s trade
2.3%
Canada’s rank among Ecuador’s partners
9th

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Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.