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Canada's Merchandise Trade with New Zealand

Canada’s Trade with New Zealand (C$)
	January - December		January - September
	2009	2010	2010	2011
Exports	270,918,494	299,918,270	219,049,325	241,264,857
Imports	454,025,440	446,928,328	344,456,269	424,486,599
Trade Balance	-183,106,946	-147,010,058	-125,406,944	-183,221,742

Source: Trade Data Online. Industry Canada. 10 December 2011. http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/tdo-dcd.nsf/eng/Home
Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada.

Canada’s Merchandise Trade with New Zealand, 2010
	Canadian Imports from New Zealand		Canadian Exports to New Zealand
	Merchandise Classification	%	Merchandise Classification	%
1	Meat and edible meat offal	31.13	Fertilizers	16.94
2	Beverages, spirits and vinegar	14.10	Boilers, mechanical appliances, etc.	13.75
3	Starches, glues, enzymes, etc.	11.17	Meat and edible meat offal	8.02
4	Boilers, mechanical appliances, etc.	7.17	Wood and wood articles, charcoal	5.08
5	Eggs, dairy products, honey, etc.	6.07	Printed books, newspapers, etc.	4.98
6	Edible fruits and nuts	5.24	Electrical machinery and equipment	4.60
7	Optical, medical, scientific, technical instrumentation	2.65	Salt, sulfur, earths, lime, stone, cement	4.07
8	Iron and steel	2.49	Woodpulp; paper or paperboard scraps	4.05
9	Fish, crustaceans, molluscst	2.37	Optical, medical, scientific, technical instrumentation	3.55
10	Aluminum and aluminum articles	2.31	Plastic and plastic articles	2.92

	Top 10 as % of total from New Zealand	87.70	Top 10 as % of total to New Zealand	67.95
	New Zealand imports as % of Cdn total	0.11	New Zealand exports as % of Cdn total	0.08

Source: Source: Trade Data Online. Industry Canada. 19 March 2011. http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/tdo-dcd.nsf/eng/Home
Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services.

Note: All merchandise is assigned Harmonised System (HS) codes in order that accurate trade records can be kept, tariffs collected appropriately, customs procedures followed, and so forth. The HS system of codes, at its most disaggregated, assigns a 10-digit code to a given item. As the degree of aggregation increases, the number of digits in the code decreases. Thus, for example, the 6-digit HS code assigned to a motor vehicle with a spark-type ignition and a cylinder capacity of more than 3000 cc is 870323. The 2-digit HS code (in this case it is 87) includes not only this type of vehicle, but also many other types of vehicles and a wide variety of vehicle accessories and parts. The table above is based on Harmonised System (HS) codes at the 2-digit level. To learn more about the HS Code system used by Statistics Canada go to http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/tdo-dcd.nsf/eng/h_00048.html