What does Canada import the most?

Canada's largest import is passenger vehicles, worth $38.8B in 2025, 6.3% of its total imports of $612B.

Does Canada run a trade surplus or deficit?

Canada ran a trade deficit of $26.1B in 2025: it imported $612B of goods and exported $586B.

Earth-moving machinery is Canada's fastest-growing top import by value, up 3.3x year over year, reaching $2.5B in 2025.

$612B

2025 · Annual

Canada yearly trade, 2015-2025

Canada monthly trade through June 2026

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Passenger vehicles	$38.8B	6.3%	-3.4%
2	Trucks and goods vehicles	$19.9B	3.3%	-1.4%
3	Vehicle parts and accessories	$19.3B	3.1%	-0.9%
4	Gold	$17.8B	2.9%	+80%
5	Petroleum oils	$15.4B	2.5%	-2.2%
6	Refined industrial goods	$12.8B	2.0%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$10.8B	1.7%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$8.8B	1.4%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$6.8B	1.1%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$4.8B	0.8%	-5.4%

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Earth-moving machinery	$2.5B	0.4%	+3.3x
2	Gold	$17.8B	2.9%	+80%
3	Petroleum gases	$3.2B	0.5%	+71%
4	Silver	$2.7B	0.4%	+70%
5	Platinum group metals	$2B	0.3%	+58%
6	Refined industrial goods	$1.7B	0.4%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$1.4B	0.4%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$1.1B	0.4%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$879M	0.4%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$619M	0.4%	-5.4%

Source & methodology

We use primary trade sources for every country. See our methodology page for how we source and verify this data.

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