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Trade between Canada and the United Arab Emirates

In 2024, Canada exported $1.8 billion to the United Arab Emirates and imported $550 million. Canada ran a surplus of $1.2 billion with the United Arab Emirates, compared with a surplus of $1.3 billion in 2019. The United Arab Emirates was Canada’s 32nd largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Canada was the United Arab Emirates’ 34th (0.4%).

Summary

Canada → United Arab Emirates
$1.8billion
United Arab Emirates → Canada
$550million
Canada’s balance
$1.2billion

Balance

Canada’s trade balance with the United Arab Emirates

Trade between Canada and the United Arab Emirates grew 15.7-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.8
  • Imports 0.5
  • Balance +1.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$143 million$4 million$139 million
1996$124 million$10 million$114 million
1997$182 million$10 million$173 million
1998$185 million$8 million$177 million
1999$116 million$19 million$96 million
2000$148 million$95 million$53 million
2001$131 million$46 million$84 million
2002$170 million$18 million$152 million
2003$239 million$22 million$218 million
2004$314 million$70 million$244 million
2005$469 million$64 million$405 million
2006$682 million$88 million$594 million
2007$970 million$48 million$922 million
2008$1.4 billion$332 million$1 billion
2009$1.1 billion$172 million$959 million
2010$1.1 billion$149 million$945 million
2011$1.4 billion$910 million$453 million
2012$1.9 billion$221 million$1.6 billion
2013$1.8 billion$165 million$1.6 billion
2014$1.8 billion$89 million$1.7 billion
2015$1.8 billion$175 million$1.6 billion
2016$1.5 billion$181 million$1.4 billion
2017$1.7 billion$256 million$1.5 billion
2018$1.8 billion$265 million$1.5 billion
2019$1.7 billion$335 million$1.3 billion
2020$1.7 billion$221 million$1.5 billion
2021$2.7 billion$543 million$2.2 billion
2022$3 billion$814 million$2.2 billion
2023$2.5 billion$847 million$1.6 billion
2024$1.8 billion$550 million$1.2 billion

What they sell each other

What Canada sells to the United Arab Emirates

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

  1. Cars$281 million · 15.9%
    10 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  2. Airplanes and helicopters$245 million · 13.9%
    173 tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  3. Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas)$203 million · 11.5%
    289 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  4. Rapeseed (canola)$162 million · 9.1%
    349 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  5. Wheat$90 million · 5.1%
    315 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  6. Cameras and broadcast equipment$89 million · 5%
    107 tonnes
  7. Flight simulators and aircraft launch gear$83 million · 4.7%
    301 tonnes
  8. Computers$65 million · 3.7%
    226 tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ sources
  9. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$48 million · 2.7%
    747 tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  10. Other industrial machines$27 million · 1.5%
    511 tonnes

What the United Arab Emirates sells to Canada

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

  1. Steel structures$84 million · 15.4%
    34 thousand tonnes
  2. Welded steel pipes$48 million · 8.7%
    50 thousand tonnes
  3. Coated flat steel$46 million · 8.4%
    51 thousand tonnes
  4. Steel bars$44 million · 8%
    66 thousand tonnes
  5. Steel angles and sections$43 million · 7.7%
    57 thousand tonnes
  6. Refined petroleum$40 million · 7.2%
    48 thousand tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  7. Jewelry$30 million · 5.4%
    1 tonne · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  8. Unwrought aluminum$25 million · 4.5%
    10 thousand tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  9. Perfumes$19 million · 3.5%
    1 thousand tonnes
  10. Aluminum bars and profiles$13 million · 2.4%
    3 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Vancouver to Jebel Ali.

The estimated sea route between Vancouver and Jebel Ali is 10,817 nautical miles (20,033 km) long: ≈ 25–32 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Malacca and Singapore; and Strait of Hormuz.

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 · 62.5%
  2. Air$871 million · 37.5%

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

How much each matters to the other

The United Arab Emirates was Canada’s 32nd largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Canada was the United Arab Emirates’ 34th (0.4%).

The United Arab Emirates in Canada’s trade
0.2%
The United Arab Emirates’ rank among Canada’s partners
32nd
Canada in the United Arab Emirates’ trade
0.4%
Canada’s rank among the United Arab Emirates’ partners
34th

Compare with

Other partners of Canada

Other partners of the United Arab Emirates

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

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.