SMEs at a glance: Interprovincial trade
2025-11-17
This infographic presents findings from Statistics Canada's Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises 2023 on businesses involved in interprovincial trade, that is, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that made sales to customers located in another province or territory.
SME Profile: Interprovincial trade
2025-11-17
This report presents findings from Statistics Canada's Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises 2023 on businesses involved in interprovincial trade, that is, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that made sales to customers located in another province or territory.
The infographic provides some characteristics on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exporters using data from the 2023 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SFGSME), a survey conducted by Statistics Canada on behalf of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
This report highlights the distinguishing features of SME exporters compared to non-exporters by examining differences in business and owner characteristics, financing characteristics, international business activities, revenue growth and levels of innovation.
This profile investigates the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that sell their goods and/or services to other provinces (internal traders) and examines their distinguishing characteristics compared with SMEs that do not sell to other provinces.
(Special edition of Key Small Business Statistics)
This publication presents information on exports by firms size, by industry, destination, province and commodity exported. It includes a profile of SME exporters including their financing activities and perceived obstacles to growth. It also looks at SME Involvement in Global Value Chains.
This report was undertaken to document the profiles of Canadian SME exporters and to gain a better understanding of the processes of internationalization adopted by SMEs .
This report was conducted to examine the extent to which Canadian SME exporter firms face difficulty in accessing debt financing from commercial lenders compared to non-exporters.
This profile presents a profile of Canadian SMEs that exported in 2004. The profile examines the distinguishing features of SME exporters and their financing needs, and provides insight into the differences between exporters in the manufacturing and service sectors.
As part of the multi-year Growth Firms Project, the Small Business Branch investigated the job creation performance of exporters in the most recent phase of work.
This paper uses the Exporter Registry data to construct a profile of small business exporters that establishes new baseline information and provides a basis for policy development to better foster small business exports.
This paper, which is a summary of a longer document, also provides information on exports by size of firm across provinces, industry and export destination, as well as a comparison with U.S. exporting firms.