Texas

Texas Exports and Foreign Investment

• In 2025, Texas exported $448.2 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Texas supported an estimated 1.1 million jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Texas and Jobs

• Texas was the largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Texas goods exports were $448.2 billion, an increase of 80 percent ($199 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Goods exports accounted for 15.4 percent of Texas GDP in 2025.
• Texas goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 1.1 million jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.

Manufacturing Exports from Texas and Jobs

• In 2025, Texas exported $298.7 billion of manufactured products.
• Texas exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 833 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is computer & electronic products, which accounted for $70.7 billion of Texas's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are petroleum & coal products ($67.6 billion), chemicals ($55.1 billion), transportation equipment ($28.6 billion), and machinery, except electrical ($26.3 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Texas Businesses Many of Which are SMEs

• A total of 38,616 companies exported from Texas locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 35,550 (92 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 39.5 percent of Texas's total exports of goods in 2024.

Texas's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest market was Mexico. Texas exported $124.7 billion in goods to Mexico in 2025, representing 28 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Mexico was followed by Canada ($34.8 billion), Netherlands ($31.6 billion), South Korea ($21.8 billion), and Japan ($15.6 billion).
• Texas goods exports to major world areas included:

• 50 percent of Texas’s goods exports ($222.4 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Texas's Top Agricultural Exports

• Texas is the country’s 6th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $6.5 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
beef and veal	$1.3 billion	3
cotton	$1.1 billion	1
other plant products	$1.0 billion	4
dairy products	$642 million	3
feeds and other feed grains	$379 million	10

International Investment Creates Jobs in Texas

• In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 717,400 Texas workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Texas included the United Kingdom, Japan, and France.
• Foreign investment in Texas was responsible for 5.4 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.

Texas’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Texas recorded goods exports: Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands ($181 billion), Corpus Christi ($75.6 billion), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington ($51 billion), El Paso ($41.3 billion), Beaumont-Port Arthur ($29.4 billion), Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos ($17.4 billion), Laredo ($12.8 billion), San Antonio-New Braunfels ($11.9 billion), McAllen-Edinburg-Mission ($8.9 billion), Brownsville-Harlingen ($7.6 billion), Waco ($832.4 million), Longview ($562.9 million), Amarillo ($533.5 million), Texarkana ($509.5 million), Eagle Pass ($507.9 million), Sherman-Denison ($476.4 million), Wichita Falls ($309.1 million), San Angelo ($249.5 million), College Station-Bryan ($236.7 million), Lubbock ($227.1 million), Tyler ($199.8 million), Killeen-Temple ($185.1 million), Midland ($160.6 million), Victoria ($138 million), Odessa ($128 million), and Abilene ($106.3 million).