Minnesota

Minnesota Exports and Foreign Investment

• In 2025, Minnesota exported $23.6 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Minnesota supported an estimated 101 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Minnesota and Jobs

• Minnesota was the 23rd largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Minnesota goods exports were $23.6 billion, an increase of 18 percent ($3.5 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Goods exports accounted for 4.4 percent of Minnesota GDP in 2025.
• Minnesota goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 101 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 Minnesota and Jobs

• In 2025, Minnesota exported $21.8 billion of manufactured products.
• Minnesota exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 76 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is computer & electronic products, which accounted for $4.4 billion of Minnesota's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are machinery, except electrical ($3.3 billion), transportation equipment ($2.3 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($2.1 billion), and food & kindred products ($2.0 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Minnesota Businesses Many of Which are SMEs

• A total of 7,694 companies exported from Minnesota locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 6,524 (85 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 24.7 percent of Minnesota's total exports of goods in 2024.

Minnesota's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest market was Canada. Minnesota exported $5.6 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 24 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Mexico ($3.6 billion), China ($1.5 billion), Japan ($973 million), and Ireland ($839 million).
• Minnesota goods exports to major world areas included:

• 50 percent of Minnesota goods exports ($11.9 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Minnesota's Top Agricultural Exports

• Minnesota is the country’s 4th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $8.3 billion 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
soybeans	$1.8 billion	4
corn	$1.3 billion	4
pork	$1.1 billion	2
feeds and other feed grains	$893 million	4
other plant products	$820 million	6

International Investment Creates Jobs in Minnesota

• In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 158,700 Minnesota workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Minnesota included Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
• Foreign investment in Minnesota was responsible for 5.7 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.

Minnesota’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Minnesota recorded goods exports: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington ($21.7 billion), Duluth ($1.3 billion), Fargo ($819.2 million), Sioux Falls ($531.1 million), La Crosse-Onalaska ($436.3 million), Grand Forks ($377.6 million), Mankato ($303 million), Rochester ($264.4 million), and St. Cloud ($252.9 million).