Canadianowned affiliates operating in the United States account for about half of this total activity and employ some 600,000 people in the United States; Canadian operations in Mexico generate sales of about $ billion and employ nearly 70,000 people in that country. The number of associated jobs in Canada is much more difficult to estimate.
In the Eastern Caribbean, external current account deficits are widening again due to higher oil and food imports and weak exports. Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines are expected to run sizeable external current account deficits, averaging more than 20 percent of GDP during 2012–2013.