Makeup and pet food: Two of Canada's Hidden Export Success Stories

The report, Canada's Hidden Success Stories: Competing Globally, identifies five little-known products from the non-primary sector for which Canada is globally competitive and assesses the factors behind their success. To identify these products, five economic criteria were applied to more than 1,000 different products that Canada exports. The criteria set minimum thresholds for total value of exports, export growth (for both Canadian and global trade), share of exports going to the United States, and type of products.

The success stories involved cosmetics, pet food, synthetic rubber, inorganic chemicals and photonic devices.

This has been excerpted from the 28 May 2014 news release by Conference Board of Canada, and is available in its entirety at
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/press/newsrelease/14-05-28/makeup_and_pet_food_two_of_canada_s_hidden_export_success_stories.aspx