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Eurostat reported that the European Union exported goods worth €48.8 billion to Canada in 2025, while importing €33.0 billion and recording a trade surplus of €15.8 billion. The statistics agency noted that exports had risen by 1.2 percent from €48.2 billion in 2024, even as imports surged 18.0 percent from €28.0 billion. Total bilateral trade in goods reached €81.8 billion for the year.
The growth continues a longer-term expansion that followed the provisional entry into force of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement in September 2017, Eurostat data show. Trade values climbed from €54.2 billion in 2018 to €81.8 billion in 2025, reflecting an average annual increase of 6.1 percent. Over that period exports grew at an annual rate of 4.8 percent while imports expanded by 8.2 percent annually.
Machinery and mechanical appliances formed the largest share of EU exports to Canada, totalling €9.4 billion or 19.3 percent of the total, according to the Eurostat assessment. Pharmaceutical products followed at €5.5 billion, equivalent to 11.2 percent, with vehicles, cars, motorcycles and parts contributing €5.4 billion or 11.1 percent. Electrical machinery and equipment accounted for €3.3 billion, or 6.7 percent of exports, the figures show.
On the import side, ores, slag and ash represented the top category at €4.0 billion, or 12.2 percent of all goods arriving from Canada, Eurostat reported. Machinery and mechanical appliances made up €3.8 billion or 11.4 percent, while mineral fuels, oils and distillation products totalled €3.1 billion, representing 9.4 percent. Aircraft, spacecraft and parts contributed €2.9 billion, or 8.9 percent, completing the leading import groups.
The European Commission has highlighted that bilateral trade in goods and services combined climbed to €130 billion in 2025, up 80 percent from €72.1 billion in 2016 when CETA provisionally took effect. EU exports of goods alone have expanded 62 percent since 2016 to reach the 2025 level, the commission’s trade policy overview indicated. Canada ranks as the EU’s 12th largest goods trading partner, accounting for 1.8 percent of the bloc’s external trade in goods.
Utilisation of preferences under CETA has also risen steadily, with the rate for EU exports to Canada reaching 63.2 percent in 2024 and generating an estimated €636 million in duty savings that year, according to European Commission data. The EU remains Canada’s second-largest trading partner after the United States, ahead of China. These developments build on the framework established by the trade agreement since its implementation.
