Canadian Industry Statistics (CIS)
International Trade
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 21)
Under this topic you will find information on imports, exports and more for
Canada's Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 21) sector. The
information is provided through links to selected reports in Trade Data Online.
You can use this information to identify export opportunities, identify
opportunities to replace imported goods with your own, assess the export
intensity of the subsector and determine the apparent size of the domestic
market.
Total exports include all goods leaving the country
(through customs) for a foreign destination. It consists of the sum of domestic
exports and re-exports.
Total Exports = Domestic Exports + Re-exports
Domestic exports consist of the exports of all goods grown,
produced, extracted or manufactured in the country (Canada) leaving the country
(through customs) for a foreign destination. Exports of imported merchandise
which has been substantially enhanced in value are also included.
On the other hand, re-exports refer to the export of goods
that have previously entered the country (Canada) and are leaving in the same
condition as when first imported. Exports of imported merchandise which has
been minimally processed but NOT substantially enhanced in value are also
counted as re-exports.
The following links request the Trade Data Online application to generate
on-the-fly reports using the latest available data from Statistics Canada:
Total Exports - Top 10 Countries of
Destination - Latest 5 Years (Report)
Total
Exports from Selected Areas - Latest 5 Years (Report)
Total Exports to the U.S. by State of
Destination - Latest 5 Years (Report)
Total Exports - Top 10 Countries of
Destination - Year to Date vs. Previous Year to Date (Report)
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Total imports include all goods which have entered the
country (Canada) by crossing territorial (customs) boundaries, whether for
immediate domestic consumption or for storage in customs bonded warehouses.
This includes re-imports. This refers to goods re-entering
(returned to) Canada after having been exported abroad without having been
materially altered or substantially enhanced in value while abroad.
The following links request the Trade Data Online application to generate
on-the-fly reports using the latest available data from Statistics Canada.
Total Imports - Top 10 Countries of Origin -
Latest 5 Years (Report)
Total Imports from
Selected Areas - Latest 5 Years (Report)
Total Imports from the U.S. by State of
Origin - Latest 5 Years (Report)
Total Imports - Top 10 Countries of Origin -
Year to Date vs. Previous Year to Date (Report)
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The balance of trade represents the difference between
exports and imports of goods between the country (Canada) and one (or more) of
its international trading partners.
Trade Balance = Total Exports - Total Imports
If the country imports more goods than it exports, the trade balance is
negative (trade deficit) . If the country exports more goods
than it imports, the trade balance is positive (trade
surplus).
The following link requests the Trade Data Online application to generate
on-the-fly reports using the latest available data from Statistics Canada.
Trade Balance between Canada and All Countries (Total) - Latest 5 Years
(Report)
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Export intensity is defined as the ratio of domestic
exports to manufacturing revenues X 100. The more an industry is export
oriented, the higher is this ratio.
Export Intensity = Domestic Exports / Manufacturing
Revenues
In Trade Data Online, export intensity is expressed as a percentage, i.e. as
the % of manufacturing revenues exported abroad.
The following link requests the Trade Data Online application to generate
on-the-fly reports using the latest available data from Statistics Canada.
Export Intensity - Latest 10 Years (Report)
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The Canadian apparent domestic market is calculated by
adding manufacturing revenues to total imports and subtracting total
exports.
Apparent Domestic Market = Manufacturing Revenues + Total Imports
- Total Exports
The following link requests the Trade Data Online application to generate
on-the-fly reports using the latest available data from Statistics Canada.
Canadian Apparent Domestic Market - Latest 10 Years (Report)
Caution should be exercised when interpreting statistics relating to
apparent domestic market. The reason it is called apparent and not
real domestic market is due to at least two factors which can distort
the results:
- Trade data are valued at the border on a commodity-by-commodity basis and
may be different from the value at the plant gate due to such factors as
freight, handling charges, third-party mark-ups and the like. In short, the
value at the factory door may be lower than at the border and in some cases
where a very large proportion of the product is exported, it may appear as
though Canada exports more than it produces. While this would appear illogical,
it is not necessarily due to errors in recording.
- Some large plants manufacture products classified to industries other than
their own yet all of the plant's output, for statistical purposes, is
attributed to the industry to which it is classified. In this case, the market
for a particular set of goods may be smaller than it appears to be.
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The current section contains links to selected reports in Trade Data Online
to illustrate the type of information that can be viewed. However, once you
access the Trade
Data Online application, you are
free to customize the selections by changing parameters in the main panel above
the reports.
The main panel allows you the select the trade type (imports, exports, trade
balance, etc.), the time period (5 or 10 years, selected years, year to date
etc.), the currency (Canadian or U.S. dollars), the domestic region (All
Canada, individual provinces etc.), the trading partners (world total, list of
all countries, Top 10 trading partners, over 320 individual countries,
predefined geographic areas, etc.) as well as selected the NAICS codes.
Data are available from 1992 to present for primary industries (e.g.
agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, oil and gas extraction etc.) as well as
manufacturing industries.
In addition to printing the reports or graphs, Trade Data Online also allows
you to download the underlying data in comma-delimited (CSV) format or as an
Excel Spreadsheet file to save customized collections of reports for future
use.
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The data in this section come from Statistics Canada's Canadian International Merchandise
Trade Database. Data are available for the years 2001-2010.
Please note that Industry-based trade data (which is classified according to
NAICS) is derived from product-based trade
data (which is classified according to HS). The primary purpose for the
recompilation by industry is to provide a basis for estimating the apparent
domestic market for a collection of fabricated goods by combining manufacturing
production data with trade data. This type of data
integration carries with it a number of potential pitfalls and important
limitations.