Posted AT 4:44 PM EST on 14/12/07
China-Canada trade pattern shifting
China's rapid industrialization has seen its appetite for Canadian imports shift to wood, metals and other raw materials from wheat, which dominated the roster a decade ago.
Wheat was Canada's largest export to China in 1997, accounting for nearly 19 per cent of the value of overall exports, according to a Statistics Canada report released Friday. But by 2004-06, wheat's share had dropped to just 6 per cent and it had disappeared from the top ten list of Canadian exports to China.
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