Canada offers a highly diversified, export-oriented medical device industry that manufactures equipment and supplies based on research and technology development. This market is estimated at just over $8 billion, with imports at approximately $6.7 billion and exports at $1.4 billion. Canada’s largest trading partner for medical devices is the U.S., and in 2015, medical device imports from the U.S. were estimated at just over $3 billion, representing 45 percent of Canada’s total medical device imports. Imports from Wisconsin were just over $48 million. The Canadian medical device market depends upon imports for about 80 percent of its consumption.
