The development of the agricultural tractor market in Canada

　　　　　　Canada's more developed agriculture, tractors and agricultural machinery retains the quantity in the late 1960s and early 1970s already saturated, subsequent decades of market sales of agricultural products were farmers older models. With the upgrading of agricultural machinery and tractors, the general tractor use life of 10 years, once the market has emerged a new structure, technology and agricultural machinery products, they will change their old models, which is also a major factor in the long-term sustainable development of Canadian tractors and farm machinery market.

　　　　　　Canadian tractor market sales peak is in the 1970s, the highest annual sales have reached more than 30000 units, sales in 1979 for 30850 and subsequent market sales showed a downward trend year by year, to the 1990s market sales volume has dropped to 1.1 to 1.6 million units. But since 2000, the Canadian tractor market began to show a slow growth trend.

　　　　　　In 1999-2004 years of this period, the Canadian tractor annual sales remained between 1.3 to 17700 units, sales of tractors, mainly driven by two wheel drive product sales growth, while the four wheel drive product sales were declining trend year by year.

　　　　　　In this period, the Canadian market sales of tractors, a variety of power models of sales growth trends. 1999 sales of tractors in Canada, 29.4kW sales accounted for 27% of total sales, 73.5kW accounted for 13%, while in 2004 the proportion of these two power segment sales were 39% and 20%.

Import and export trade of agricultural tractors

　　　　　　Canada as a result of domestic production of tractors whether it is a variety or quantity, can not meet the market demand, therefore, for many years the Canadian market sales of tractors are more imported products, especially in the import.

　　　　　　In this period of 1996-2004 years, the amount of agricultural tractors imported in the 2.5-4.1 million, the amount of imports between 4.8-7.3 million, the overall upward trend, such as 1996, imports of 539000000 U. s.dollars (average price of 20903.7 U. S. dollars), import volume fell to 571000000 units (average price was $20383), import volume and import volume were 24800 units and 689000000 U.S. dollars (27811 U.S. dollars), an increase of 11.43% year on year, while imports and Taiwan are 20.67% and 36.44%. It can be seen that both the amount of the tractor and the amount of imports, but the price is always showing a growing trend.

　　　　　　During this period, the export volume of agricultural tractors was maintained at the 2300--8200 stage, and the export volume was between 1.5 and 490000000 dollars. In 1996 Canada exported tractor 7730, exports amounted to $400000000 (average price of 51846 dollars), to 2000 exports of 5805 units (down 29.23%), exports amounted to $254000000 (average price was $43729), down 40.24%, the development of 2004 exports and exports were 2480 and 169000000 U.S. dollars (average price of 68385 dollars), exports and exports fell by 57.28% and 33.46%. It can be seen that the export volume is continuously decreasing, while the export volume and the average price of Taiwan are the first to fall after the rise of the trend.

　　　　　　The tractor mainly comes from the United States, Western Europe and Japan, the export tractor is mainly to the United States and Western European countries to carry out bilateral balanced trade. Tractors imported from the United States and Western Europe are mainly 58.8kW above models, the main imported from Japan is the following small tractors 29.4kW.