The oil exports hardly count. Most of it is produced in the prairie
provinces. It's less costly to export it to the US, and import oil on the
East and West coasts. Most of the fuel used here is refined in Bellingham
Washington.

Steve R.


"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Udie" youdeetwothreethree@ victoriadotteecee.ca wrote in message
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There can never be balanced trade with the US. There are only 30 odd
million
of us in Canada.

In other words, you can sell it, but you can't buy it? Why is that? It
isn't
because you can't afford it -- you made the money from exporting.

A lot of our sales to the US are in the form of raw
materials for your industries.

Actually, not. Of the $214 billion you exported to the US last year, only
$23 billion was raw materials. $12 billion was ag products. Another $30
billion was fuels (mostly oil). But $133 billion was manufactured
products.

If you want to pick apart the details, or if you want to see what your
*net*
exports were, you'll see some surprising things. Here is the rough
breakdown:

http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/sitc/sitcCty.pl

Ed Huntress