Nevada Exports and Foreign Investment
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In 2025, Nevada exported a record $12.7 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Nevada supported an estimated 27 thousand jobs (latest data available).
Exports from Nevada and Jobs
- Nevada was the 33rd largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
- In 2025, Nevada goods exports were $12.7 billion, an increase of 47 percent ($4.0 billion) from its export level in 2015.
- Goods exports accounted for 4.5 percent of Nevada GDP in 2025.
- Nevada 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 Nevada and Jobs
- In 2025, Nevada exported $11.5 billion of manufactured products.
- Nevada exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 24 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
- The state's largest manufacturing export category is computer & electronic products, which accounted for $4.0 billion of Nevada's total goods exports in 2025.
- Other top manufacturing exports are primary metal manufacturing ($3.2 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($1.2 billion), electrical equipment, appliances & components ($746 million), and chemicals ($473 million).
Exports Sustain Thousands of Nevada Businesses Many of Which are SMEs
- A total of 3,642 companies exported from Nevada locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 3,123 (86 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
- Small and medium-sized firms generated 26.4 percent of Nevada's total exports of goods in 2024.
Nevada's Largest Export Markets
- The state’s largest market was Mexico. Nevada exported $1.7 billion in goods to Mexico in 2025, representing 13 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
- Mexico was followed by Canada ($1.6 billion), Switzerland ($1.6 billion), India ($1.5 billion), and Taiwan ($621 million).
- Nevada goods exports to major world areas included:
|
Region |
2025 Value |
|
APEC |
$7.0 billion |
|
Asia |
$5.0 billion |
|
European Union |
$1.4 billion |
|
South/Central America and Caribbean |
$369 million |
|
Sub-Saharan Africa |
$66 million |
- 35 percent of Nevada goods exports ($4.5 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.
Nevada's Top Agricultural Exports
- Nevada is the country’s 46th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $201 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 |
$80 million |
42 |
|
beef and veal |
$53 million |
33 |
|
dairy products |
$28 million |
31 |
|
feeds and other feed grains |
$17 million |
39 |
|
other livestock products |
$10 million |
45 |
International Investment Creates Jobs in Nevada
- In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 70,200 Nevada workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Nevada included Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- Foreign investment in Nevada was responsible for 4.7 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.
Nevada’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting
- In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Nevada recorded goods exports: Reno ($3.4 billion), Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas ($2.8 billion), and Carson City ($243.6 million).
[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.




