Maryland

Maryland Exports and Foreign Investment

• In 2025, Maryland exported $16.6 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Maryland supported an estimated 55 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Maryland and Jobs

• Maryland was the 28th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Maryland goods exports were $16.6 billion, an increase of 65 percent ($6.5 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Goods exports accounted for 2.9 percent of Maryland GDP in 2025.
• Maryland goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 55 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 Maryland and Jobs

• In 2025, Maryland exported $12.0 billion of manufactured products.
• Maryland exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 43 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is transportation equipment, which accounted for $3.5 billion of Maryland's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are chemicals ($2.6 billion), machinery, except electrical ($1.6 billion), computer & electronic products ($1.2 billion), and other fabricated metal products ($489 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Maryland Businesses Many of Which are SMEs

• A total of 5,528 companies exported from Maryland locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 4,804 (87 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 31.0 percent of Maryland's total exports of goods in 2024.

Maryland's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest market was Canada. Maryland exported $2.2 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 13 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by France ($1.7 billion), Netherlands ($1.3 billion), India ($1.2 billion), and Morocco ($1.1 billion).
• Maryland goods exports to major world areas included:

• 30 percent of Maryland goods exports ($5.0 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.  

Maryland's Top Agricultural Exports

• Maryland is the country’s 36th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $834 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	$255 million	25
broiler meat	$136 million	8
soybeans	$117 million	21
corn	$60 million	24
feeds and other feed grains	$48 million	31

International Investment Creates Jobs in Maryland

• In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 128,900 Maryland workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Maryland included the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada.
• Foreign investment in Maryland was responsible for 5.2 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.

Maryland’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Maryland recorded goods exports: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington ($29.1 billion), Washington-Arlington-Alexandria ($13.3 billion), Baltimore-Columbia-Towson ($10.7 billion), Lexington Park ($1.6 billion), Hagerstown-Martinsburg ($174.2 million), and Salisbury ($75.4 million).