Strategic Lens

Critical minerals: Canada and Taiwan

First country

Second country

In 2025, Canada sold USD 63.0 million of critical minerals and metals to Taiwan.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, Canada sold USD 63.0 million of critical minerals and metals, and Taiwan sold almost none.
  • BothTwo-way trade in critical minerals and metals is 72 percent below its 2021 peak of USD 229 million.

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 Taiwan: critical minerals and metals

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

2019: 71.1Low 42.6 / High 228.52025: 63

201971.1
202042.6
2021228.5
2022120.8
202359.6
202448.3
202563

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

Canada's imports from Taiwan: critical minerals and metals

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

2019: 15.3Low 0 / High 15.32025: 0.1

201915.3
20200
20210
20220
20230.1
20240
20250.1

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026