Idaho

Idaho Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Idaho exported $4.6 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Idaho supported an estimated 15 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Idaho and Jobs

• Idaho was the 43rd largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Idaho goods exports were $4.6 billion, an increase of 7 percent ($301 million) from its export level in 2015.
• Idaho goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 15 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 Idaho and Jobs

• In 2025, Idaho exported $3.7 billion of manufactured products.
• Idaho exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 11 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is food & kindred products, which accounted for $964 million of Idaho total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are computer & electronic products ($812 million), chemicals ($654 million), primary metal manufacturing ($323 million), and machinery, except electrical ($261 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Idaho Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 1,720 companies exported from Idaho locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 1,461 (85 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 34.5 percent of Idaho total exports of goods in 2023.

Idaho's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Canada. Idaho exported $1.8 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 39 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Taiwan ($417 million), Mexico ($291 million), Singapore ($291 million), and Malaysia ($276 million).
• Idaho goods exports to major world areas included:

• 60 percent of Idaho goods exports ($2.7 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Agriculture in Idaho depends on Exports

• Idaho is the country’s 21st largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $2.8 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
other plant products	$644 million	10
dairy products	$630 million	4
vegetables, processed	$366 million	3
wheat	$310 million	6
beef and veal	$309 million	9

International Investment Creates Jobs in Idaho

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed an estimated 22 thousand workers in Idaho. Major sources of foreign investment in Idaho included Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Idaho’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Idaho recorded goods exports: Boise City ($2.1 billion), Logan ($857 million), Twin Falls ($351.2 million), Coeur d'Alene ($345.1 million), Idaho Falls ($296.9 million), Lewiston ($217.9 million), and Pocatello ($125.7 million).