What does Canada produce and export?

What does Canada produce?

What does Canada export?

Canada's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Canada's own $246.1 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Crude oil alone is 44% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Canada compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Yams: #2, 13% of world imports, $33.7 million (2024)
• Hazelnuts: #4, 7.3% of world imports, $166.4 million (2024)
• Quinoa: #4, 5.7% of world imports, $16.8 million (2024)
• Uranium: #4, 3.2% of world imports, $50.3 million (2024)
• Vanilla: #4, 6.3% of world imports, $29.2 million (2024)
• Avocados: #5, 3.6% of world imports, $341.8 million (2024)
• Grapes: #5, 4.4% of world imports, $582.7 million (2024)
• Mangoes: #5, 4.2% of world imports, $173.5 million (2024)
• Silver: #5, 4.5% of world imports, $1.5 billion (2024)
• Bauxite: #6, 1.2% of world imports, $132.5 million (2024)
• Boron: #6, 3.6% of world imports, $41.8 million (2024)
• Eggs: #6, 3.7% of world imports, $220 million (2024)
• Magnesium: #6, 5.5% of world imports, $50.3 million (2024)
• Tomatoes: #6, 3.2% of world imports, $388.9 million (2024)
• Cassava: #7, 3.6% of world imports, $124.6 million (2024)
• Cinnamon: #7, 2.5% of world imports, $21 million (2024)
• Coffee: #7, 2.9% of world imports, $962.5 million (2024)
• Cocoa: #8, 3.6% of world imports, $685.6 million (2024)
• Logs: #8, 2.2% of world imports, $282.3 million (2024)
• Oranges: #8, 3.6% of world imports, $199.6 million (2024)
• Peanuts: #8, 3.8% of world imports, $176.9 million (2024)
• Shrimp: #8, 2.4% of world imports, $777.5 million (2024)
• Titanium: #8, 2.9% of world imports, $92.3 million (2024)
• Ginger: #9, 3.4% of world imports, $44.7 million (2024)
• Orange juice: #9, 2.2% of world imports, $41.6 million (2024)
• Palladium: #9, 4.4% of world imports, $573.3 million (2024)
• Rhodium: #9, 2.9% of world imports, $218.1 million (2024)
• Sisal: #9, 2.8% of world imports, $19 million (2024)
• Urea: #9, 2.6% of world imports, $531.5 million (2024)
• Lentils: #10, 2.5% of world imports, $105.9 million (2024)
• Olive oil: #10, 2.5% of world imports, $403.3 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Canada commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Canada is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

• Aluminum #4 producer, #1 exporter
• Barley #5 producer
• Canola #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Cobalt #2 exporter
• Crude oil #4 producer, #5 exporter
• Gold #4 producer, #3 exporter
• Helium #5 producer
• Indium #4 producer
• Iron ore #3 exporter
• Lentils #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Linseed #4 producer, #3 exporter
• Logs #5 producer
• Natural gas #5 producer
• Nickel #5 producer, #2 exporter
• Niobium #2 producer, #2 exporter
• Oats #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Palladium #3 producer
• Pork #4 exporter
• Potash #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Potatoes #5 exporter
• Sawnwood #4 producer, #1 exporter
• Shrimp #3 exporter
• Silicon #5 exporter
• Soybeans #4 exporter
• Tomatoes #5 exporter
• Wheat #5 producer, #2 exporter
• Zinc #4 exporter

Canada in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Canada, computed from the same data as this page.

What Canada uses

Canada had about 39 million people and a food supply of 3,590 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

FAO reports a negative domestic supply for Canada's tea (−25 thousand tonnes; production 0 tonnes, imports 25 thousand tonnes, exports 51 thousand tonnes), meaning exports exceed production plus imports in the year. These are not counted as use and are left out of the table above.

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Canada

• Single-supplier markets. Canada buys half or more of its imports from one country in 20 of 31 import markets of $250 million or more, among them crude oil from United States (68%, $15.8 billion); natural gas from United States (88%, $1.8 billion); phosphate fertilizers from United States (75%, $1.7 billion); steel from United States (68%, $804 million); sugar from Brazil (83%, $803 million); coal from United States (79%, $789 million). Import dependency.

How long Canada's own reserves would last

• Potash: Canada's reserves are about 73 years of its own output at the current rate (31% of world output, 19% of world reserves), against 121 years for the world.
• Gold: Canada's reserves are about 16 years of its own output at the current rate (6.1% of world output, 4.8% of world reserves), against 20 years for the world.
• Niobium: Canada's reserves are about 107 years of its own output at the current rate (5.4% of world output, 3% of world reserves), against 191 years for the world.
• Titanium: Canada's reserves are about 139 years of its own output at the current rate (3.8% of world output, 10% of world reserves), against 53 years for the world.
• Nickel: Canada's reserves are about 16 years of its own output at the current rate (3.6% of world output, 1.6% of world reserves), against 36 years for the world.

USGS national reserve figures, rounded. A short national figure usually reflects how little has been proved up, not when mining stops. See country reserve life.

Canada and critical minerals

Canada is the largest producer of 1 mineral on a US or EU critical list, each at 20% or more of world output: potash (31%, 2025). Source: the concentration report on USGS, FAOSTAT and Energy Institute production.

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Data updated 22 October 2026.

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