Strategic Lens

Nuclear and space: Canada and South Africa

First country

Second country

In 2025, Canada sold USD 2.3 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft to South Africa and bought USD 36.2 million from it.

Benefits

  • BothTwo-way trade in nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft grew about 3.1 times, from USD 12.3 million in 2019 to USD 38.5 million in 2025.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, South Africa sold USD 36.2 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft, against USD 2.3 million the other way.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

Canada's imports from South Africa: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by Canada

2019: 12.3Low 8.5 / High 41.12025: 36.2

201912.3
20208.5
202120
202218.6
202333.9
202441.1
202536.2

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026