Colorado

Colorado Exports & Foreign Investment

In 2025, Colorado exported a record $11.0 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Colorado supported an estimated 37 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Colorado and Jobs

• Colorado was the 34th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Colorado goods exports were $11.0 billion, an increase of 39 percent ($3.1 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Colorado goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 37 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 Colorado and Jobs

• In 2025, Colorado exported $10.2 billion of manufactured products.
• Colorado exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 34 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was food & kindred products, which accounted for $2.3 billion of Colorado total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were computer & electronic products ($2.1 billion), chemicals ($1.3 billion), machinery, except electrical ($1.1 billion), and other fabricated metal products ($707 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Colorado Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 5,563 companies exported from Colorado locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 4,814 (87 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 27.2 percent of Colorado total exports of goods in 2023.

Colorado's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Mexico. Colorado exported $1.7 billion in goods to Mexico in 2025, representing 15 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Mexico was followed by Canada ($1.6 billion), Switzerland ($751 million), South Korea ($663 million), and Italy ($655 million).
• Colorado goods exports to major world areas included:

• 42 percent of Colorado goods exports ($4.7 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Colorado's Top Agricultural Exports

• Colorado was the country’s 27th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $2.0 billion in domestic agricultural exports abroad in 2024 (latest data available according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).1
• Top agricultural exports were:

	2024 Value	2024 State Rank
beef and veal	$499 million	5
other plant products	$419 million	15
wheat	$208 million	8
dairy products	$194 million	13
feeds and other feed grains	$167 million	15

International Investment Creates Jobs in Colorado

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed an estimated 132 thousand Colorado workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Colorado included the United Kingdom, Canada, and France.

Colorado’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Colorado recorded goods exports: Denver-Aurora-Centennial ($5.6 billion), Greeley ($2 billion), Boulder ($1.7 billion), Fort Collins-Loveland ($1.2 billion), Colorado Springs ($1.1 billion), Pueblo ($207.3 million), and Grand Junction ($155.2 million).