Utah
- 72,700 Utah jobs depend on trade with Canada
- 1,900 Utahans are employed by Canadian-owned businesses
- Total Canada–Utah goods trade: $2.8 billion
Redline partnered to launch one of the first free onboard WiFi networks on a U.S. railroad
A communications partnership
Redlineis a Markham, Ontario based manufacturing company of wireless broadband products that enables the delivery of high-speed communication services like voice, data, video surveillance, and data acquisition for customers.
The company was established in 1999 and the majority of the company’s revenues come from customers in North America and the Middle East.
Redline Communications has been working in partnership with the Utah Transit Authority and the Utah Dept. of Transportation in providing wireless access and surveillance security cameras for their double-decker high speed trains that travel at 80 mph along a stretch of railway beginning in Ogden and ending in Provo, Utah. Redline, with partners Wasatch Electric, NOMAD Digital and Talley Communications, partnered with the Utah Transit Authority to launch one of the first “free to all passengers” onboard WiFi networks on a U.S. railroad.
Savage Companies
Utah-based Savage Companies is a privately held international developer, provider, and operator of materials management systems, transportation systems, facilities, and related services. The company has more than 150 facilities across the U.S. and Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec, and New Brunswick). Notable Savage clients in Canada include Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway and Nova Scotia Power. Savage Services acquired CANAC Railway Services from CN in 2004. It also operates a coal terminal in Nova Scotia.
For more information on Utah’s trade with Canada, please contact:
Consulate General of Canada
1625 Broadway, Suite 2600 • Denver, CO 80202
Phone: (303) 626-0640 • Fax: (303) 572-1158
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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Utah–Canada facts
Foreign export markets
- % foreign-bound goods sold to Canada: 7%
Merchandise trade
- Utah exports to Canada: $1.3 billion
- Utah imports from Canada: $1.4 billion
- Bilateral trade: $2.8 billion
Jobs*
- # jobs that depend on trade with Canada: 72,700
- # employed by Canadian-owned businesses: 1,900
* Job numbers from trade (2010 data) and Canadian-owned businesses (2009 data) are from a 2012 study commissioned by the Government of Canada
Tourism
- Utah visits by Canadians: 291,700, $82 million spent
- Utah visits to Canada: 65,000, $49 million spent
Top exports
- Motor vehicle parts: $100 million
- Explosives & pyrotechnics: $72 million
- Iron & steel tubes, pipes & sheets: $69 million
- Optical, medical & precision instruments: $58 million
- Precious metals: $54 million
- Aircraft: $52 million
- Furniture & bedding: $52 million
- Plastics & plastic articles: $49 million
- Toys, games, sporting & recreation equipment: $47 million
- Iron & steel alloys & semi-finished products: $46 million
- Base metal tools & cutlery: $44 million
- Perfumes, essential oils & toiletries: $28 million
- Telephones & AV recording equipment: $24 million
Top imports
- Live animals: $145 million
- Ores, slag & ash: $99 million
- Aircraft: $99 million
- Plastics & plastic articles: $82 million
- Aluminum & aluminum articles: $44 million
- Wood & semi-finished wood products: $41 million
- Furniture & bedding: $25 million
- Iron & steel tubes, pipes & sheets: $24 million
- Animal meats: $23 million
- Inorganic chemicals: $21 million
- Precious metals: $18 million
- Fertilizers: $16 million
- Wood pulp: $15 million
Utah exports $1.3 billion in goods to Canada
- Minerals & metals (27%)
- Equipment & machinery (20%)
- Transportation (17%)
- Chemicals (13%)
- Agriculture (7%)
- Plastics & rubbers (4%)
- Other (12%)
Utah imports $1.4 billion in goods from Canada
- Minerals & metals (32%)
- Agriculture (17%)
- Equipment & machinery (11%)
- Transportation (10%)
- Plastics & rubbers (6%)
- Forest products (5%)
- Other (19%)
