About what share of Canada’s exports go to the United States?
- About half
- About one-quarter
- About one-tenth
- More than two-thirds
Answer: More than two-thirds
In 2025 about 72% of Canada’s exports went to the United States, down from about 76% a year earlier; Discover Canada says over three-quarters. Each country is the other’s largest trading partner. Canada exports energy, industrial goods, machinery, automotive, agricultural, fishing and forestry products, and consumer goods.
Learn more: Canada and the United States
- The United States is Canada’s largest international trading partner, and each country is the other’s largest trading partner.
- About 72% of Canadian exports went to the United States in 2025.
- Canada and the U.S. have the biggest bilateral trading relationship in the world.
- Integrated Canada–U.S. supply chains compete with the rest of the world.
- Canada exports billions of dollars worth of energy products, industrial goods, machinery, equipment, automotive, agricultural, fishing and forestry products, and consumer goods.
- The border is traditionally called “the world’s longest undefended border.”
- The Peace Arch at Blaine, Washington, inscribed “children of a common mother” and “brethren dwelling together in unity,” symbolizes the two countries’ close ties and common interests.