Strategic Lens

Supply chains and manufacturing: Canada and Mexico

First country

Second country

In 2025, Canada sold USD 1.85 billion of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel to Mexico and bought USD 21.3 billion from it.

Benefits

  • BothTwo-way trade in machinery, vehicles and iron and steel grew 52 percent, from USD 15.3 billion in 2019 to USD 23.2 billion in 2025.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, Mexico sold USD 21.3 billion of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel, against USD 1.85 billion 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 exports to Mexico: machinery, vehicles and iron and steel

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

2019: 1.79Low 1.47 / High 2.42025: 1.85

20191.79
20201.47
20211.83
20222.19
20232.25
20242.4
20251.85

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

Canada's imports from Mexico: machinery, vehicles and iron and steel

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

2019: 13.48Low 10.38 / High 21.352025: 21.35

201913.48
202010.38
202113.13
202215.98
202318.31
202418.49
202521.35

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026