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Purpose - The paper's aim is to analyze changes in the relative importance of Canada as a supplier for its home markets; and, the rising importance of China versus other Canadian trading partners. Design/methodology/approach The market overlap measure (MOM) statistic, developed by Sawchuk and Yerger is used to analyze the Canadian home market shares for Canada and every other nation with sales in the Canadian market for each of 61 different NAIC sectors (56 at the four-digit NAIC level and five at the three-digit NAIC level). Findings The USA remains the most important foreign supplier to Canadian markets with a weighted average 23.6 percent market share as of 2003 (Canadian-based production having a 63.0 percent market share), US market share, however, has been declining by nearly a percentage point per year since 2000. Approximately, half of the lost US' market share has been captured by Canadian-based firms and approximateIy a quarter has been captured by Chinese production. China's growth in Canadian market share places it second behind only the USA in terms of Canadian-based farms' home market competitive exposure. Research limitations/implications - The work does not include an analysis of service sector trade flows due to inadequate data. Practical implications The MOM statistic is shown to be a useful diagnostic tool for analyzing the level of, trends in, and industries driving the competitive exposure a nation's firms have on sales in a specified market. Originality/value The MOM statistic is shown to yield better insights regarding the actual degree of competitive exposure than does the more commonly used similarity indices such as Finger-Kreinen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a list of papers that appeared in previous issues of the journal "Canadian Economic Observer." The papers include "Provincial income disparities through an urban-rural lens," that appeared in the August 2005 issue, "Canada's trade and investment with China," that appeared in the June 2005 issue, "The output gap between Canada and the US: The role of productivity 1994-2002," that appeared in the January 2005 issue, "Canada's imports by country," that appeared in the September 2004 issue, and "Canada's Trade with China," that appeared in the June 2004 issue.

Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC's efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communist China; mounting anger at Washington, DC'S use of subsidized wheat sales to capture traditional Canadian markets; and a surging sense of Canadian nationalism that sought a distinct role for Canada on the world stage. Clearly, as was so often the case in postwar Canadian foreign economic policy, a narrowly defined national interest easily trumped the ideological pressures of western solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Threshold cointegration is introduced as an econometric technique to model the impact of trade disruptions on spatial price transmission in commodity markets so that market participants and policy makers can understand the global impact of trade disruptions on prices. The threshold cointegration technique that is employed is flexible in that it allows the number of thresholds and their location to be determined endogenously and the threshold variable to be exogenous to the system. We innovate on the threshold cointegration technique by selecting a measure of trade disruptions as the threshold variable. This innovation can be used for any commodity market that is spatially connected due to arbitrage; however, to illustrate its usefulness we apply the technique to trade disruptions for canola traded between Canada and China using weekly data between 2014 and 2019 and find that canola trade disruptions between Canada and China impacted global price transmission and resulted in market fragmentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an update of Canada's trade with China. From 2002-2006, Canada's exports nearly doubled to $8 billion, and in the first seven months of 2007, they rose 43% over the same period in 2006. This 2007 gain was the biggest posted by any Group of Seven (G7) country and put China neck and neck with Japan as Canada's third largest export market.

The article presents information about the effects of trade liberalization on the Canadian clothing market . It examines the transition in the market owing to free trade with the United States and developing countries like China, India and Bangladesh. Its influence on domestic production and employment is also discussed.

Examines Canada’s trade and investment with China. Direct investment flows between China and Canada; Imports; Exports.

Documents how Canada's trade with China has evolved over the last 15 years in the context of the broad shifts in the China's trade with the world. Benefits from both the direct effect of higher exports to China and indirectly from the upward pressure on commodity prices from China's rapid industrialization; Imports from China shifting from toys and trinkets to productivity-enhancing goods.