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Canada's Merchandise Trade with Vietnam

Canada’s Trade with Vietnam (C$)
	January - December		January - September
	2009	2010	2010	2011
Exports	205,576,822	247,557,515	191,066,183	216,593,116
Imports	1,054,082,927	1,172,277,409	854,420,920	957,144,757
Trade Balance	-848,506,105	-924,719,894	-663,354,737	-740,551,641

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 Vietnam, 2010
	Canadian Imports from Vietnam		Canadian Exports to Vietnam
	Merchandise Classification	%	Merchandise Classification	%
1	Footwear	14.31	Boilers, mechanical appliances, etc.	22.46
2	Furniture and stuffed furnishings	13.78	Iron and steel	12.33
3	Knitted or crocheted apparel	11.82	Fertilizers	9.47
4	Woven clothing and apparel articles	11.31	Food industries wastes, prepared animal fodder	6.89
5	Fish, crustaceans, molluscs	7.99	Fish, crustaceans, molluscs	5.85
6	Electrical machinery and equipment	6.99	Raw hides, skins and leather	5.39
7	Boilers, mechanical appliances, etc.	4.80	Pearls, precious stones or metals	5.14
8	Edible fruits and nuts	3.16	Oil seeds and misc. fruit, grain, etc.	3.34
9	Iron or steel articles	3.10	Plastic and plastic articles	3.08
10	Leather articles	2.63	Wood and wood articles, charcoal	2.73

	Top 10 as % of total from Vietnam	79.88	Top 10 as % of total to Vietnam	76.68
	Vietnamese imports as % of Cdn total	0.29	Vietnamese exports as % of Cdn total	0.07

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