Alaska

Alaska Exports and Foreign Investment

 

• In 2025, Alaska exported a record $6.7 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Alaska supported an estimated 27 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Alaska and Jobs

• In 2025, Alaska goods exports were $6.7 billion, an increase of 45 percent ($2.1 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Goods exports accounted for 8.9 percent of Alaska GDP in 2025.
• Alaska goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 27 thousand jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.

Manufacturing Exports from Alaska and Jobs

• In 2025, Alaska exported $1.6 billion of manufactured products.
• Alaska exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 3,000 jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is primary metal manufacturing, which accounted for $1.2 billion of Alaska's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are transportation equipment ($176 million), petroleum & coal products ($97 million), machinery, except electrical ($47 million), and food & kindred products ($38 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Alaska Businesses Many of Which are SMEs

• A total of 653 companies exported from Alaska locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 480 (74 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 21.2 percent of Alaska's total exports of goods in 2024.

Alaska's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest market was South Korea. Alaska exported $1.1 billion in goods to South Korea in 2025, representing 16 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• South Korea was followed by Australia ($1.0 billion), Japan ($927 million), China ($803 million), and Canada ($635 million).
• Alaska goods exports to major world areas included:

• 44 percent of Alaska goods exports ($2.9 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Alaska's Top Agricultural Exports

• Alaska was the country’s 50th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $22 million in domestic agricultural exports abroad in 2024 (latest data available according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).^[1]
• Top agricultural exports were:

Product	2024 Value	2024 State Rank
other plant products	$17 million	50
other livestock products	$2 million	50
feeds and other feed grains	$1 million	45
beef and veal	$563 thousand	49
grain products, processed	$466 thousand	45

Alaska Seafood is a Key Export for the State

• Alaska was the country’s largest seafood exporting state, shipping more than $2.5 billion in domestic seafood exports abroad in 2025.

International Investment Creates Jobs in Alaska

• In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 14,900 Alaska workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Alaska included Canada, Japan, and France.
• Foreign investment in Alaska was responsible for 5.3 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.

Alaska’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Alaska recorded goods exports: Anchorage ($630.6 million), and Fairbanks-College ($407.1 million).

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^[1] Estimates of state exports of agricultural products by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and goods exports by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce are based on different methodologies and are not directly comparable.