Wyoming Exports and Foreign Investment
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In 2025, Wyoming exported $2.0 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Wyoming supported an estimated 6,000 jobs (latest data available).
Exports from Wyoming and Jobs
- Wyoming was the 48th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
- In 2025, Wyoming goods exports were $2.0 billion, an increase of 70 percent ($825 million) from its export level in 2015.
- Goods exports accounted for 3.8 percent of Wyoming GDP in 2025.
- Wyoming goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 6,000 jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.
Manufacturing Exports from Wyoming and Jobs
- In 2025, Wyoming exported $1.9 billion of manufactured products.
- Wyoming exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 5,000 jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
- The state's largest manufacturing export category is chemicals, which accounted for $1.3 billion of Wyoming's total goods exports in 2025.
- Other top manufacturing exports are petroleum & coal products ($157 million), computer & electronic products ($141 million), machinery, except electrical ($103 million), and transportation equipment ($64 million).
Exports Sustain Thousands of Wyoming Businesses Many of Which are SMEs
- A total of 598 companies exported from Wyoming locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 499 (83 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
- Small and medium-sized firms generated 18.2 percent of Wyoming's total exports of goods in 2024.
Wyoming's Largest Export Markets
- The state’s largest market was Canada. Wyoming exported $491 million in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 25 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
- Canada was followed by Chile ($222 million), Brazil ($174 million), Indonesia ($132 million), and Paraguay ($116 million).
- Wyoming goods exports to major world areas included:
|
Region |
2025 Value |
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APEC |
$1.3 billion |
|
Asia |
$575 million |
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European Union |
$60 million |
|
South/Central America and Caribbean |
$686 million |
|
Sub-Saharan Africa |
$6 million |
- 49 percent of Wyoming goods exports ($983 million) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.
Wyoming's Top Agricultural Exports
- Wyoming is the country’s 41st largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $335 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 |
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beef and veal |
$136 million |
20 |
|
other plant products |
$55 million |
48 |
|
other livestock products |
$40 million |
35 |
|
feeds and other feed grains |
$38 million |
35 |
|
grain products, processed |
$15 million |
36 |
International Investment Creates Jobs in Wyoming
- In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 9,700 Wyoming workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Wyoming included the United Kingdom, Canada, and France.
- Foreign investment in Wyoming was responsible for 4.0 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.
Wyoming’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting
- In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Wyoming recorded goods exports: Casper ($115.3 million), and Cheyenne ($73.8 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.




