SME profile : Profil des PME : le commerce interprovincial

Using results from the 2011 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises, this report reveals that internal trade is more common than INTRODUCTION exporting (18 percent of SMEs engage in internal With an increasing number of free trade agreements in trade and 10 percent export), but that internal trade place and being negotiated around the world, businesses contributes almost the [...] In addition, owners of SMEs that trade 1. Section 121 of the Constitution Act of 1867 states that “All articles of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the Union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces.” 2. Interprovincial trade barriers are found in all sectors of the economy and exist for trade in both goods and services. [...] The purpose of this report is not to reiterate the internal For the purpose of this report, internal trader SMEs barriers that exist within Canada, rather the purpose is were identified using the survey question on distribution to better quantify the number of businesses potentially of sales by destination. [...] Internal traders from the survey reveal that among the 10 percent of that export also relied less on internal trade sales and SMEs (or approximately 58,251 enterprises when significantly more on export sales, with the value of weighted to the target population) that exported in 2011, sales abroad approximately the same as the value of approximately 72 percent also traded internally. [...] According to Statistics Canada, 4.0 0 3.6 Atlantic Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British the total value of interprovincial exports is highest Columbia and the in Ontario, where sales to other provinces totalled Territories $107 billion in 2009.13 Nevertheless, in terms of the Internal trader and Internal trader and Non-internal trader exporter non-exporter value of interprovincial