Indiana
- 180,400 Indiana jobs depend on trade with Canada
- 8,700 Indianans are employed by Canadian-owned businesses
- Indiana sells more goods to Canada than to any other country in the world
- Total Canada–Indiana goods trade: $18.4 billion
Whiting Refinery (photo: Heather Phillips)
Oil refinery
BP’s Whiting Refinery in Hammond is the second largest refinery in the BP refining system and the fifth largest refinery in the United States. BP is investing $3 billion into the Whiting Facility to modernize and expand the refinery’s processing capacity to 260,000 barrels of Canadian oil sands oil daily.
The project is also generating thousands of new, temporary contractor jobs in Indiana. Hundreds of contractor jobs will be needed for routine maintenance work following modernization of the facilities.
Specialty foods
Canadian specialty food manufacturer Skjodt-Barett Foods has chosen Lebanon, Indiana, as the location for its first U.S. operation. The company has purchased a 215,000 square foot property and will invest $19.75 million, creating 300 new and permanent jobs by 2013. Skjodt-Barett Foods based in Mississauga, Ontario is a manufacturer of custom fruit fillings, icings, glazes, sauces, marinades, baby food and spouted pouches of fruit snacks for retail food producers.
Automotive supply chain
Headquartered in Aurora, Ontario, Magna International Inc., is the most diversified automotive supplier in the world with 111,000 employees worldwide and global sales of $29 billion. Magna designs, develops, and manufactures automotive systems, assemblies, modules and components; and engineers and assembles complete vehicles, primarily for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of cars and light trucks. In Indiana, Magna operates three facilities, and employs 400 people in the state. These sites produce stampings and drive-train components for Chrysler, General Motors, Honda and BMW. Magna announced an expansion of its operations in Delaware County worth more than $14 million, creating 50 new jobs.
For more information on Indiana’s trade with Canada, please contact:
Consulate General of Canada
600 Renaissance Center, Suite 1100 • Detroit, MI 48243-1798
Phone: (313) 567-2340 • Fax: (313) 567-2164
Consulate General of Canada
180 N. Stetson Avenue, Suite 2400 • Chicago, IL 60601-6714
Phone: (312) 616-1860 • Fax: (312) 616-1878
(Chicago is responsible for northwest Indiana)
August 2012
Unless otherwise mentioned, all figures are based on 2011 data in U.S. dollars (US$1.00=C$0.9891). Statistics Canada: tourism, based on combined same-day and overnight travel (5/2012 release); goods & services trade (2/2012 release). World Institute for Strategic Economic Research (WISER): Canada’s export ranking (2/2012 release). U.S. Census Bureau: trade (2/2012 release). Services trade data not available at a sub-national level. Figures may not add up due to rounding. Produced by the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.
Supplemental content
Indiana–Canada facts
Foreign export markets
- Largest export market: Canada
- % foreign-bound goods sold to Canada: 37%
Indiana sells more goods to Canada than to the state’s next seven largest foreign markets combined
Merchandise trade
- Indiana exports to Canada: $11.8 billion
- Indiana imports from Canada: $6.6 billion
- Bilateral trade: $18.4 billion
Jobs*
- # jobs that depend on trade with Canada: 180,400
- # employed by Canadian-owned businesses: 8,700
* Job numbers from trade (2010 data) and Canadian-owned businesses (2009 data) are from a 2012 study commissioned by the Government of Canada
Tourism
- Indiana visits by Canadians: 508,500, $62 million spent
- Indiana visits to Canada: 148,800, $78 million spent
Top exports
- Motor vehicle parts: $2.1 billion
- Trucks: $1.0 billion
- Automobiles: $787 million
- Iron & steel alloys & semi-finished products: $688 million
- Optical, medical & precision instruments: $388 million
- Plastics & plastic articles: $380 million
- Computers: $343 million
- Medicine, in dosage: $294 million
- Iron & steel tubes, pipes & sheets: $275 million
- Books & printed material: $239 million
- Engines & turbines: $236 million
- Furniture & bedding: $201 million
- Aluminum & aluminum articles: $193 million
Top imports
- Motor vehicle parts: $1.2 billion
- Iron & steel alloys & semi-finished products: $526 million
- Plastics & plastic articles: $450 million
- Copper & copper articles: $432 million
- Aluminum & aluminum articles: $315 million
- Coal: $267 million
- Medicine, in dosage: $247 million
- Paper & paperboard: $223 million
- Fertilizers: $211 million
- Zinc & zinc articles: $159 million
- Iron & steel tubes, pipes & sheets: $127 million
- Rubber & rubber articles: $116 million
- Furniture & bedding: $106 million
Indiana exports $11.8 billion in goods to Canada
- Transportation (46%)
- Equipment & machinery (21%)
- Minerals & metals (14%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Plastics & rubbers (4%)
- Forest products (3%)
- Other (7%)
Indiana imports $6.6 billion in goods from Canada
- Minerals & metals (27%)
- Transportation (19%)
- Equipment & machinery (11%)
- Chemicals (11%)
- Plastics & rubbers (9%)
- Energy (7%)
- Other (16%)
