Canada
Canada is the largest export market for U.S.
agricultural products, reaching a record $14.0
billion in 2007. Moreover, the United States and
Canada have the world’s largest bilateral
agricultural trading relationship with $29.3 billion
of agricultural products crossing the border in
2007. U.S. agricultural exports to Canada remain
robust with $12.3 billion in sales between January
and November 2008. Top U.S. exports to Canada are
fresh vegetables and fruit, snack foods, red meat,
and processed fruit and vegetables. Canada’s top
exports to the United States are snack foods, live
animals, red meat, and processed fruit and
vegetables.
Under the tariff phase-out provisions of the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada
applies no tariffs to U.S. food and agricultural
products with the exception of tariff-rate quotas on
domestic “supply-managed” agricultural products such
as poultry and eggs and dairy products. For some
products where U.S. access is different under World
Trade Organization agreements and the negotiated
NAFTA level, Canada applies the higher access level.
Population:
33,212,696 (July 2008 est.)
GDP per capita: $40,200 (2008 est.)
Agriculture: 2.1 percent of GDP
Agricultural Production: wheat, barley, oilseed,
tobacco, fruits, vegetables; dairy products;
forest products; fish
Major Agricultural Exports: snack foods,
live animals, red meat, and processed fruit and
vegetables, wood pulp, timber,
Major Agricultural Imports from U.S.:
fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, snack foods, coarse
grains, red meats
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