Missouri

Missouri Exports and Foreign Investment

• In 2025, Missouri exported a record $19.6 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Missouri supported an estimated 74 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Missouri and Jobs

• Missouri was the 25th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Missouri goods exports were $19.6 billion, an increase of 44 percent ($6.0 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Goods exports accounted for 4.2 percent of Missouri GDP in 2025.
• Missouri goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 74 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 Missouri and Jobs

• In 2025, Missouri exported $17.0 billion of manufactured products.
• Missouri exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 55 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is transportation equipment, which accounted for $5.7 billion of Missouri's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are chemicals ($3.7 billion), machinery, except electrical ($1.6 billion), food & kindred products ($1.4 billion), and other fabricated metal products ($872 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Missouri Businesses Many of Which are SMEs

• A total of 5,597 companies exported from Missouri locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 4,683 (84 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 24.2 percent of Missouri's total exports of goods in 2024.

Missouri's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest market was Canada. Missouri exported $6.7 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 34 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Mexico ($4.3 billion), Israel ($736 million), Germany ($700 million), and India ($625 million).
• Missouri goods exports to major world areas included:

• 66 percent of Missouri’s goods exports ($12.9 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Missouri's Top Agricultural Exports

• Missouri is the country’s 10th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $5.1 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	$1.5 billion	7
corn	$514 million	9
soybean meal	$398 million	7
feeds and other feed grains	$385 million	9
pork	$378 million	7

International Investment Creates Jobs in Missouri

• In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 133,300 Missouri workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Missouri included the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.
• Foreign investment in Missouri was responsible for 4.9 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.

Missouri’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Missouri recorded goods exports: St. Louis ($16 billion), Kansas City ($10.9 billion), St. Joseph ($753.4 million), Columbia ($494.8 million), Springfield ($396 million), Joplin ($341.8 million), Jefferson City ($332.9 million), and Cape Girardeau ($142.5 million).