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Trade Profile - Vietnam  Flag of Vietnam

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Top 5 BC Origin Exports to Vietnam, 2012
CommodityCdn $MillionsShare of Total
1. Oil-cake and other solid residues resulting from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils$13.524%
2. Diamonds$10.919%
3. Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel$6.812%
4. Lumber, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm$3.05%
5. Unwrought zinc$2.85%
Total$57.2100%
Top 5 Canadian Exports to Vietnam, 2012
CommodityCdn $MillionsShare of Total
1. Mineral or chemical fertilizers, potassic$75.321%
2. Soya beans, whether or not broken$29.28%
3. Wheat and meslin$26.47%
4. Oil-cake and other solid residues resulting from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils$20.56%
5. Crustaceans, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine$14.44%
Total$352.5100%
Top 5 Canadian Imports from Vietnam, 2012
CommodityCdn $MillionsShare of Total
1. Furniture other than for medical, surgical or dental use$163.310%
2. Shoes, boots, sandals and slippers, leather uppers$102.66%
3. Printing machinery for printing by plates/ cylinders/etc; mach. for uses ancillary to printing$75.15%
4. Insulated wire/cable and other insulated electric conductors; optical fibre cables$61.64%
5. Crustaceans, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine$51.53%
Total$1,617.2100%
Top 5 Exports from Vietnam to the Rest of the World, 2011
CommodityUS $MillionsShare of Total
1. Food$17,929.719%
2. Clothing$13,153.714%
3. Office and telecom equipment$11,122.711%
4. Other manufactures not elsewhere specified$10,918.011%
5. Fuels$10,477.811%
Total$96,905.7100%
Top 5 Imports into Vietnam from the Rest of the World, 2011
CommodityUS $MillionsShare of Total
1. Machinery and transport equip. other than office and telecom equip. and automotive products$17,799.317%
2. Chemicals other than pharmaceuticals$13,612.813%
3. Fuels$12,491.312%
4. Office and telecom equipment$10,502.110%
5. Food$9,029.88%
Total$106,749.9100%
Provincial Distribution of Exports to Vietnam, 2012
CommodityCdn $MillionsShare of Total
1. Saskatchewan$120.434%
2. Ontario$63.018%
3. British Columbia$57.216%
4. Alberta$41.512%
5. Quebec$31.69%
6. Newfoundland & Lab.$19.25%
7. Nova Scotia$8.72%
8. Manitoba$7.72%
9. New Brunswick$1.60%
10. Northwest Terr.$0.70%
11. Prince Edward Is.$0.40%
12. Nunavut$0.40%
13. Yukon$0.00%
Canada Total$352.5100%

Data sources: Statistics Canada and World Trade Organization