Ohio
- 286,700 Ohio jobs depend on trade with Canada
- 13,800 Ohioans are employed by Canadian-owned businesses
- Ohio sells more goods to Canada than to any other country in the world
- Total Canada–Ohio goods trade: $34.9 billion
Husky Lima Refinery
From crude oil to refined fuels
Husky Energy, one of Canada’s largest integrated energy companies, operates the Husky Lima (Ohio) Refinery, which has a capacity of processing 160,000 barrels of crude oil daily. With a workforce of 580, Husky Lima produces approximately 2 billion gallons of refined petroleum products annually, including around 25% of the gasoline consumed in the state of Ohio. The highly automated refinery operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year with a scheduled maintenance shutdown every five years.
Husky plans to review options for reconfiguring and expanding the Lima refinery to process heavy crude oil and bitumen, providing additional future investment in the community.
Jet engines
GE Aviation is the world’s leading manufacturer of jet engines for commercial and military aircraft. Headquartered in Cincinnati, the company employs 39,000 at 50 locations worldwide, including Bromont, Québec which supplies turbine blades and fan components for 8 of GE’s jet engines. In June 2012, GE announced a $64.1 million investment in the Bromont plant, including $8.4 million from the Government of Québec. The investment will enable the plant to set up two centers of excellence in research serving all GE Aviation plants worldwide. In January, 2012, Ohio-based Ellison Surface Technologies announced it will open a facility in Bromont, near its primary customer, GE Aviation Canada. Ellison specializes in surface coating solutions for metal components used in aircraft engines. The move comes as a direct result of the many blade-manufacturing contracts obtained by GE’s Bromont plant, that generated sufficient business for Ellison to warrant opening a facility near GE in Québec.
Industrial corrosion solutions
Corrprospecializes in corrosion protection products and engineering services across the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. With a Canadian office located in Calgary, the company manages 22 projects, many of them in the oil sands production regions.
Corrpro Canada does about $60 million worth of business per year in Canada. Approximately $15 to $20 million of that business comes directly from the oil sands. These oil sand-related revenues support numerous jobs at Corpro’s Medina, OH facility and a significant share of the company’s profits.
For more information on Ohio’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
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
Ohio–Canada facts
Foreign export markets
- Largest export market: Canada
- % foreign-bound goods sold to Canada: 40%
Ohio sells more goods to Canada than to the state’s next 11 largest foreign markets combined
Merchandise trade
- Ohio exports to Canada: $18.7 billion
- Ohio imports from Canada: $16.2 billion
- Bilateral trade: $34.9 billion
Jobs*
- # jobs that depend on trade with Canada: 286,700
- # employed by Canadian-owned businesses: 13,800
* Job numbers from trade (2010 data) and Canadian-owned businesses (2009 data) are from a 2012 study commissioned by the Government of Canada
Tourism
- Ohio visits by Canadians: 928,500, $155 million spent
- Ohio visits to Canada: 610,700, $222 million spent
Top exports
- Motor vehicle parts: $2.0 billion
- Automobiles: $1.8 billion
- Engines & turbines: $1.1 billion
- Plastics & plastic articles: $1.0 billion
- Iron & steel alloys & semi-finished products: $850 million
- Iron & steel tubes, pipes & sheets: $677 million
- Soaps, candles & waxes: $650 million
- Paper & paperboard: $609 million
- Rubber & rubber articles: $530 million
- Perfumes, essential oils & toiletries: $461 million
- Aircraft: $419 million
- Trucks: $411 million
- Optical, medical & precision instruments: $293 million
Top imports
- Crude petroleum: $5.5 billion
- Motor vehicle parts: $1.2 billion
- Iron & steel alloys & semi-finished products: $947 million
- Plastics & plastic articles: $915 million
- Aluminum & aluminum articles: $530 million
- Engines & turbines: $469 million
- Ores, slag & ash: $454 million
- Paper & paperboard: $311 million
- Rubber & rubber articles: $309 million
- Copper & copper articles: $278 million
- Iron & steel tubes, pipes & sheets: $238 million
- Organic chemicals: $237 million
- Optical, medical & precision instruments: $189 million
Ohio exports $18.7 billion in goods to Canada
- Transportation (28%)
- Equipment & machinery (24%)
- Minerals & metals (15%)
- Chemicals (11%)
- Plastics & rubbers (8%)
- Agriculture (4%)
- Other (9%)
Ohio imports $16.2 billion in goods from Canada
- Energy (34%)
- Minerals & metals (18%)
- Equipment & machinery (11%)
- Transportation (9%)
- Plastics & rubbers (8%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Other (14%)
