For over 150 years, Canada has been more than just a great neighbour to the United States – we’re the U.S.’s best customer, closest security partner, and largest supplier of energy. Beyond our common North American geography, we share values and interests, and deep connections with powerful, multi-layered economic ties.
Canada is the largest customer for the majority of states and is the United States’ top export market, with 2-way trade and investment totalling over $1 trillion in 2019.
Understand how Canada impacts your state’s economyClick on any state or consulate region to learn more about the U.S.-Canada bilateral trade relationship.
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In collaboration with Alabama Export Railroad, a subsidiary of Mississippi Export Railroad and Ray-Mont Logistics, Canadian National Railway Company is embarking on a new logistics park in Mobile. This collaboration will offer shippers an alternative solution to maintain a steady supply chain and get products to global markets from the Port of Mobile.
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Canadian company eCamion, a turn-key solution provider for the community energy storage industry, helped the municipality of Anchorage make electric vehicle history through the purchase of Alaska’s first commercial electric waste disposal truck.
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Major airlines WestJet and Air Canada have regular operations out of Arizona’s international airports and bring in over 250,000 passengers a year to the Phoenix area alone. The newest airline adding routes to Arizona is the low-fare Canadian airline, Swoop.
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Vancouver-based Standard Lithium broke ground on a first-of-its-kind in the world Direct Lithium Extraction plant near El Dorado.
Canada sells more to California than it sells to China, its largest foreign export market after the U.S.
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Lion Electric has partnered with school districts throughout California to electrify their bus fleets. With Lion’s help, the Twin Rivers School District in Sacramento operates the largest fleet of zero-emission school buses in the country.
Hit movies Titanic, The Revenant, Deadpool, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding were filmed in Canada
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As long as there has been a Hollywood, Canadians have played a major role in it. Top movie, TV, and music industry superstars imported from Canada include Sandra Oh, Catherine O’Hara, Keanu Reeves, Elliot Page, Simu Liu, Drake, Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds.
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Meow Wolf hired Montreal-based Moment Factory to create an interactive projection display for its new downtown Denver installation, an interactive art space that uses projection lights and rich colors to transform its venue into a three-dimensional, truly immersive exhibit.
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Toronto-based Greenfield Global is helping to power advancements in the bioprocessing, gene therapy, and medical device industries by supplying high-quality, reliable pharmaceutical raw materials via its bioprocessing wing in Brookfield.
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For three decades, Delaware’s Ultrachem sold lubricants to customers in many sectors across Canada, making Canada its longest tenured and most significant export destination.
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Canada is Florida’s biggest international economic partner, when you include Florida origin exports, imports, visitors and foreign direct investment. Some key economic indicators include 3.5 million tourists per year, contributing $6.5 billion to local economies and nearly 600 companies in 2,500 locations across the state, employing over 58,000 Floridians directly.
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Manitoba-headquartered Price Industries, which conceptualizes, designs and manufactures equipment and components for the non-residential heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry, invested $15 million to establish its second manufacturing plant in metro Atlanta. The company chose Gwinnett County for the base of its U.S operations.
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The Canada-Hawaii relationship is one between friends, neighbors, partners and allies. In the past, over 800,000 Canadians visited the islands each year, contributing up to $1.6 billion to the Hawaiian economy.
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Canadian company McCain Foods recently completed a $200 million expansion project of its Burley distribution center. The expansion increased annual French fry capacity by more than 400 million pounds and created more than 180 new jobs.
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Canada-based zero-emissions vehicle manufacturer Lion Electricannounced plans to build its first U.S. plant in Joliet, Illinois. Lion’s new plant will produce 20,000 electric buses and medium- and heavy-duty trucks annually in a $70 million, 900,000 square foot facility.
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Greenleaf Foods is bringing $100 million in investment and 115 jobs to Indianapolis! Greenleaf, the U.S. subsidiary of Ontario-based Maple Leaf Foods is purchasing and renovating a food processing plant in central Indiana to produce tempeh, a plant-based protein often used as a meat replacement.
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Des Moines-based EFCO opened its first international location, a sales and manufacturing facility in Ontario. The new facility uses steel milled in both the U.S. and Canada, and ships finished forms to construction sites world-wide.
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In an unparalleled vote of confidence in the strength and security of our joint defense relationship, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that Montreal-based Bombardier’s U.S. subsidiary has been awarded a $465 million contract to procure aircraft equipped with technology for airborne communications relay.
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Montreal-based Kruger Packaging is investing $114 million to build the company’s first corrugated box plant in the U.S., eventually employing 150 people in Elizabethtown.
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LaSalle Lumber Company’s sawmill, which employs 115 people, is a joint venture between Hunt Forest Products of Ruston, and Tolko Industries, Ltd., a Canadian company that produces a wide range of forest products for customers around the world.
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Hancock Natural Resource Group Inc., a subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corp. has acquired more than 36,000 hectares of Maine timberland along the border with Quebec. It will use the investment to generate income from selling carbon offsets and harvesting timber.
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Maryland has a cooperative agreement with Quebec, agreeing to work together on joint R&D projects, to partner on trade and business missions, and to host exchange programs for companies in incubators and accelerators.
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New Brunswick-based clean tech start up Stash Energy became one of the newest members of Boston-based Greentown Labs — North America’s premier clean tech accelerator.
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Ontario-based Magna International is investing $70.1 million in St. Clair to build complex battery enclosures for the 2022 GMC electric Hummer.
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation recently celebrated the replacement of the jointly-owned International Bridge between the Baudette and Rainy River, Ontario. The bridge is the only border crossing for 50 miles in either direction and connects the communities on both sides of the border.
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Nutrien AG Solutions, Inc. is the retail division of Nutrien Ltd., a Saskatchewan-based fertilizer company, operating 21 locations across Mississippi, where its holdings include a state-of-the-art fertilizer blending facility in Guntown and a 198-acre research farm in Winterville.
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Mystery Ranch is a Bozeman-based backpack manufacturer, specializing in high-quality equipment for military, hunting, wild outdoors and mountaineering customers. Today, Mystery Ranch also supplies customized backpacks to Canadian Special Forces, ensuring that pack equipment is easy to use, adaptable and durable for any environment or mission.
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Based in Joplin, Liberty Utilities Central Region is the U.S. Midwest’s outpost for Algonquin Power & Utilities Corporation, headquartered in Ontario. Serving over 765,000 customers in 12 states across the U.S., Liberty Utilities provides safe and reliable electric, natural gas, water, and wastewater service to more than 255,000 consumers in Missouri.
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Over 1 billion acres across the U.S. and Canada are farmed annually, and farmers have long known that soil health is a key success factor in agriculture. Deveron helps North American farmers make data-enabled decisions to increase yield and improve their soil health and employs regionally and rurally-based technicians including in Nebraska.
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Canadian-owned businesses — from leading food brands like Coldstone Creamery to professional service providers like TELUS International and Mitel — employ over 12,500 Nevadans across the state. Canada is not only the largest employer and foreign direct investor in Nevada but also engages in $2.3 billion worth of bilateral trade annually.
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Structural steel manufacturer Canam Group’s Canam Bridges subsidiary in Claremont was sold to a group of investors from Quebec. The operation in Claremont will continue to employ over 130 people.
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PamTen Software Solutions, headquartered in Princeton, is an award-winning Information Technology solutions company recently which expanded its operations to Montreal, Canada, a key Artifical Intelligence hub that will allow it to continue to grow.
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Canadian startup Smart Cone Technologies has expanded operations into Albuquerque after securing a finalist spot with the U.S. Army’s 2019 Hyperspace Challenge. SmartCone develops IoT (Internet of Things) technologies to make safety more intelligent, cost-effective, adaptable, scalable, and mobile, all at the highest standards of security and privacy.
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Several Quebec-based fashion brands have opened new retail outlets in New York City. Pajar, Mackage, Twenty Montreal and Kanuk each established a presence in NYC’s trendy Soho neighborhood, joining other Canadian fashion icons like Aritzia, lululemon, Moose Knuckles and Canada Goose already in the area.
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Quebec-based Saputo which produces, markets and distributes a wide array of dairy products has purchased two North Carolina, Carolina Aseptic and Carolina Dairy. This acquisition will help Saputo capture the growing demand for aseptic protein beverages and nutritional snacks
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Researchers from North Dakota and Manitoba have established a formal joint task force to collaborate and explore opportunities to strengthen agroecosystem research partnerships with local Indigenous groups in both countries.
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Ontario-based Nature Fresh Farms is growing its greenhouse operations in northwestern Ohio, expanding its organics program and incorporating the latest in greenhouse technology. Nature Fresh will also build a 60,000 square foot distribution facility to streamline logistics and operations.
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Since 1979, Canadian Armed Forces personnel have been stationed at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City in support of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). As partners in NORAD, the U.S. and Canada work side-by-side in the defense of North America.
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The Portland Winterhawks of the Canadian-based Western Hockey League have found new ownership. Saskatchewan natives Kerry Preete and Mike Frank teamed up with U.S.-based businessman Michael Kramer and National Hockey League executive Peter Luukko to purchase the franchise.
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Nexii Building Solutions Inc. is a Vancouver-based green construction technology company that designs and manufactures sustainable, energy efficient building materials. In an effort to deploy its cost-efficient products throughout the Northeast, a Nexii certified manufacturing plant recently opened in Hazleton creating hundreds of local green jobs, with another opening in Pittsburgh.
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Montreal-based Lightspeed POS Inc. acquired Rhode Island’s Upserve Inc., a leading restaurant management cloud-software company. Combining with Upserve will grow Lightspeed’s position in the U.S. hospitality market by an additional 7,000 customer locations. Upserve has over 300 employees in Rhode Island.
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Vancouver’s Evanesce has opened its first U.S. production facility in Hampton County. Evanesce produces price competitive, 100% plant-based and 100% compostable single-use products including straws, cutlery and take-out containers.
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South Dakota’s Prairie AquaTech has invested nearly $100 million in product development, testing, and construction of a 30,000-ton per year protein ingredient production facility in Brookings.
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Ontario-based heating/cooling solutions manufacturer Direct Coil is building its first U.S. facility in Fayetteville. The company will invest $14.4 million in Lincoln County over the next five years. “We are pleased to welcome Direct Coil to Tennessee,” said Gov. Bill Lee. “Their new operations in Lincoln County will create 75 quality jobs and support economic activity growth in rural Tennessee.”
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Canada’s Stantec is an international professional services company in the design and consulting industry with over 500 employees in Texas. Because of its annual investment of approximately $3 million to develop innovative technologies and approaches to environmentally friendly technologies, Stantec is considered a leader in eco-conscious designs.
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Famous for romantic routes that wind across Western Canada’s breathtaking landscapes, the Rocky Mountaineer train has found its first stop in America. The luxury operator treats customers to views that are often only accessible via rail, with its first route in the United States stretching across the picturesque U.S. Mountain West Region to connect Denver, Colorado to Moab, Utah.
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Montreal-based Peerless Clothing International, the largest manufacturer and distributor of tailored clothing in North America, recently expanded its St. Alban’s, Vermont distribution and warehouse center. The company now employs about 300 people, making it one of northwest Vermont’s five largest employers.
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Volvo’s 1.6-million-square-foot New River Valley assembly plant, located in Dublin, is the largest Volvo truck manufacturing facility in the world. Year over year, Virginia exports thousands of tractor-trailer trucks to Canada enabling thousands of jobs in and around Dublin.
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SHARC Energy, a Vancouver-based Canadian clean energy company, brought its clean energy opportunity to Washington-based Coastline Equipment. Coastline Equipment anticipates adding 20-30 staff, as SHARC systems become a leader on the world stage of clean energy innovation.
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Component parts for Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s West Virginia plant come from all over North America, including from Canada, and the finished engines and transmissions are shipped across the continent, with approximately 30% headed to Canada to feed the manufacture and assembly of Toyota Corollas, RAV4s, and Lexus RXs.
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Recently, Canadian and American experts have established a non-profit consortium in Wisconsin to help young innovators navigate the process for transforming their ideas to a viable start-up.
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Canada-based BluEarth Renewables leads the charge for wind power in Wyoming, with the development of two new wind farms near Rock River and Medicine Bow. The Two Rivers Wind and Lucky Star Wind projects are expected to employ approximately 400 workers during construction and three dozen permanent employees ongoing, generating sales and property taxes for the state and local communities.
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