Did you know?
The United States and Canada have the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world. In 1999, total merchandise trade between the two countries was US$365 billion, which translates into US$1 billion in goods crossing the border EVERY SINGLE DAY!
In 1999, two-way merchandise trade with Canada was larger than total U.S. merchandise trade with the entire 15-country European Union (US$347 billion).
86% of Canada's merchandise exports go to the United States, representing roughly 33% of Canadian gross domestic product and supporting more than two million Canadian jobs.
The United States trades more with the province of Ontario than the U.S. trades with Germany, and almost as much as Japan.
U.S. exports to Canada of just transportation equipment alone (US$40.8 billion in 1999) are larger than total U.S. goods exports to each individual country in the European Union, including Great Britain (US$38.3 billion) and Germany (US$26.8 billion).
http://tos.scdsb.on.ca/ss6/web_trade.htm