Virginia
- 267,100 Virginia jobs depend on trade with Canada
- 5,700 Virginians are employed by Canadian-owned businesses
- Virginia sells more goods to Canada than to any other country in the world
- Total Canada–Virginia goods trade: $4.9 billion
Inland Technologies provides environmentally sustainable recycling services to Dulles International Airport and other airports in Virginia
Inland Technologies
Inland Technologies, pioneers in environmentally sustainable recycling services, and specializes in the management and processing of glycol effluent generated from airport de-icing operations. The Nova Scotia-based company’s treatment programs are innovative and provide a substantial environmental benefit.
Washington Reagan National and Dulles International Airports are just two of ten U.S. airports and military installations served by Inland Technologies. This Canadian investment in Virginia, combined with the established partnership between Inland and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, has created jobs in Virginia, improved airport stormwater quality, and set the industry standard for glycol collection at airports across the country.
Wastewater Technologies, Inc.
Quebec-based H2O Innovation is a groundbreaking Canadian wastewater treatment company whose wholly-owned Virginia subsidiary, Wastewater Technology, Inc., has helped the company to install over 70 systems in the U.S. and abroad.
Wastewater Technology Inc. has developed a product that combines the compactness and flexibility of the activated sludge process with the stability and simplicity of the fixed film process.
Last year, the company’s North American revenues were over $27 million.
CBN Secure Technologies Inc
CBN Secure Technologies Inc. (CBN STI), the U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian Bank Note Co. (CBN), is producing the Commonwealth of Virginia’s new and secure driver’s licenses from a production facility in a historically underutilized business area in Danville.
CBN STI engaged significant participation from local small and minority businesses to design, build, and maintain the Danville facility, as well as to install, commission, and support equipment at DMV locations state-wide. CBN STI is currently expanding the business in Danville to increase the scope of manufacturing as well as include production for other states.
CBN plans to invest $1.1 million in CBN STI, expanding operations and adding 25 jobs.
For more information on Virginia’s trade with Canada, please contact:
Embassy of Canada
501 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW • Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 682-1740 • Fax: (202) 682-7726
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.
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Virginia–Canada facts
Foreign export markets
- Largest export market: Canada
- % foreign-bound goods sold to Canada: 16%
Virginia sells more goods to Canada than to the state’s next two largest foreign markets combined
Merchandise trade
- Virginia exports to Canada: $2.9 billion
- Virginia imports from Canada: $2.0 billion
- Bilateral trade: $4.9 billion
Jobs*
- # jobs that depend on trade with Canada: 267,100
- # employed by Canadian-owned businesses: 5,700
* Job numbers from trade (2010 data) and Canadian-owned businesses (2009 data) are from a 2012 study commissioned by the Government of Canada
Tourism
- Virginia visits by Canadians: 1,114,500, $154 million spent
- Virginia visits to Canada: 245,400, $150 million spent
Top exports
- Plastics & plastic articles: $180 million
- Paper & printing machinery: $142 million
- Paper & paperboard: $141 million
- Furniture & bedding: $133 million
- Iron & steel alloys & semi-finished products: $105 million
- Motor vehicle parts: $97 million
- Books & printed material: $93 million
- Heating, cooling & refrigeration equipment: $87 million
- Telephones & AV recording equipment: $74 million
- Fuel oil: $64 million
- Electric motors & generators: $64 million
- Optical, medical & precision instruments: $63 million
- Aluminum & aluminum articles: $53 million
Top imports
- Paper & paperboard: $265 million
- Plastics & plastic articles: $156 million
- Fuel oil: $104 million
- Furniture & bedding: $77 million
- Pharmaceutical products: $75 million
- Aircraft: $59 million
- Optical, medical & precision instruments: $52 million
- Wood & semi-finished wood products: $43 million
- Fish & crustaceans: $42 million
- Animal meats: $40 million
- Telecommunications parts: $39 million
- Wood pulp: $38 million
- Pasta, breads & cereal preparations: $37 million
Virginia exports $2.9 billion in goods to Canada
- Equipment & machinery (28%)
- Transportation (19%)
- Minerals & metals (10%)
- Forest products (10%)
- Plastics & rubbers (8%)
- Agriculture (7%)
- Other (18%)
Virginia imports $2.0 billion in goods from Canada
- Forest products (20%)
- Equipment & machinery (19%)
- Agriculture (11%)
- Plastics & rubbers (9%)
- Energy (8%)
- Minerals & metals (7%)
- Other (26%)
