Key Trends in Canada's International Trade in Machinery and Transport Equipment, 1980 to 2003

By Jafar Khondaker, International Trade Division,
Statistics Canada

Overview

Canada 's international trade has become increasingly intensive in machinery and transport equipment, according to long-term trends in data over the past two decades. This is true for both exports and imports.

This paper examines the data for the period from 1980 to 2003 on machinery and transport equipment.¹ It identifies some key trends in the data and explains those trends in light of major economic events of the last two decades.

Notes

1. The data used in this paper is explained in the section titled "Related facts". The commodity group machinery and transport equipment consists of a wide range of industrial machinery and equipment; electrical machinery and apparatus; computer and telecommunications equipment; and transport equipment that includes automotive products, aircraft and associated equipment, railway vehicles, ships and boats.