Hong Kong and Canada have long-standing and close trade, investment and people-to-people relations. In 2025, bilateral merchandise trade between Canada and Hong Kong amounted to HK$22.0 billion (about C$3.9 billion) and increased by 11.5% over 2024. Hong Kong’s major imports from Canada include telecommunications equipment; metalliferous ores and metal scrap; and power generating machinery and equipment.
Hong Kong’s major exports to Canada in 2025 included electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof; telecommunications equipment; and office machines and automatic data processing machines.
Hong Kong is an important entrepot for merchandise trade between Canada and the Chinese Mainland. In 2025, around 2.6% of the Mainland’s exports to Canada, and around 1.1% of the Mainland's imports from Canada, were routed through Hong Kong.
In 2024, bilateral trade in services between Canada and Hong Kong amounted to HK$26.6 billion (about C$4.9 billion) and increased by 11.4% over 2023, mainly in transport and travel services.
Canada was the 10th largest source of external investment in Hong Kong at end-2024. Canada’s inward direct investment in Hong Kong amounted to HK$253.7 billion (about C$46.9 billion), accounting for 1.4% of the total.
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and Canada signed an Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA) in February 2016. Entered into force in September 2016, the IPPA gives additional assurance that the investments of Canadian investors in Hong Kong are protected. There are currently about 300 000 Canadian passport holders and over 100 Canadian companies in Hong Kong.
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