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In 2025, the EU exported €48.8 billion worth of goods to Canada and imported €33.0 billion, resulting in a €15.8 billion trade surplus. 

Compared with 2024, exports (€48.2 billion) increased by 1.2%, while imports (€28.0 billion) rose by 18.0%.

Between 2015 and 2017, EU trade in goods with Canada increased by an average of 4.7% per year. The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) entered into force provisionally in September 2017. Between 2018 and 2025, the value of trade between the EU and Canada rose from €54.2 billion to €81.8 billion, corresponding to an average annual increase of 6.1%. Over the same period, the value of exports increased by 4.8%, while the value of imports increased by 8.2%.

Evolution of the EU's trade with Canada, 2015-2025. Line chart - Click below to see full dataset.

Source dataset: ds-045409

Largest product groups by trade value: machinery and pharmaceutical products

In 2025, the EU’s largest export product group to Canada was machinery and mechanical appliances at €9.4 billion, equal to 19.3% of the total exports. Next were pharmaceutical products (€5.5 billion; 11.2%), vehicles, cars, motorcycles and parts (€5.4 billion; 11.1%), electrical machinery and equipment (€3.3 billion; 6.7%) and optical, photographic and medical instruments (€2.0 billion; 4.1%).

For imports, the largest product groups were ores, slag and ash (€4.0 billion; 12.2% of all imports) and machinery and mechanical appliances (€3.8 billion; 11.4%). These were followed by mineral fuels, oils and distillation products (€3.1 billion; 9.4%), aircraft, spacecraft and parts (€2.9 billion; 8.9%) and pharmaceutical products (€1.9 billion; 5.9%).

Most traded good between the EU and Canada, 2025. Table - Click below to see full dataset.

Source dataset: ds-045409

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Methodological notes

  • The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a progressive trade agreement between the EU and Canada. It entered into force provisionally in 2017, meaning that most of the chapters of the agreement now apply. The parts which are not yet in force can be consulted here. All national (and in some cases regional) parliaments in EU countries need to approve CETA before it can take full effect. Currently, 17 EU members have completed their national ratification processes for CETA, while 10 still need to ratify CETA at national level.
  • The products mentioned in this article are defined in the Harmonised commodity description and coding system (HS):
    • 26 – Ores, slag and ash
    • 27 – Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
    • 30 – Pharmaceutical products
    • 84 – Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
    • 85 – Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
    • 87 – Vehicles other than railway and tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
    • 88 – Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof 
    • 90 – Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof

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