About Strategis Trade Data Online

  This site provides customs-based statistics on international trade in goods to help you:

• Find new export markets;  
• Determine competition for your products;  
• Identify domestic opportunities for import replacement;  
• Analyze the Canadian domestic market for industries in the manufacturing sector.

Note: Trade Data Online is far more manipulative and intuitive than Trade DataWeb.

Purpose:

The purpose of this document is to show the user yet another source of statistics for US Exports and also Canadian Imports and Exports.  It is even more important when you consider that Canada and the United States are each other’s largest trading partner.

Using Strategis Trade Data Online

1. Go to http://www.ic.gc.ca/.

2. Change “Trade Type” to Imports

3. Change “Trader to Trade” by provinces

4. Change “Value in” to US Dollars

5. Change “Trading Partner” as appropriate or leave at the default.

6. Change “Product Search” to Code Search and insert the six-digit number we previously identified using the US Bureau of the Census website: “870880” and press “search”.  Note this will return one or more products within 870880 and may offer you the opportunity to drill down for even more precise information.

7. Select the code description as appropriate and press “add codes to selection list” and then press “Accept”.

8. Double check “Value in” as it sometimes likes to flip back to Canadian Dollars

9. If all looks good, press “Run Graph”  You’ll receive the following:

You can also save the data for further usage by Lotus or Excel.

If you want to display the countries from which shock absorbers came press the “Back” button on the browser and do the following:

1. Change “Trader” to Canada

2. Change “Trading Partner” to whatever you want.  We used “Top 10 Countries”

3. Press “Run Graph” and you’ll receive:  

If you presume that your competition is another US company, press you browsers “Back” key and do the following:

1. Change “Trading Partner” to US Distribution by State and you’ll receive the following:

Note you can also run similar graphs for Canadian Imports as well as US statistics.