Massachusetts

Massachusetts Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Massachusetts exported a record $38.8 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Massachusetts supported an estimated 106 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Massachusetts and Jobs

• Massachusetts was the 17th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Massachusetts goods exports were $38.8 billion, an increase of 53 percent ($14 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Massachusetts goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 106 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 Massachusetts and Jobs

• In 2025, Massachusetts exported $36.7 billion of manufactured products.
• Massachusetts’s exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 101 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was chemicals, which accounted for $8.1 billion of Massachusetts total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were computer & electronic products ($7.1 billion), primary metal manufacturing ($6.5 billion), machinery, except electrical ($5.3 billion), and miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($2.8 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Massachusetts Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 9,487 companies exported from Massachusetts locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 8,265 (87 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 22.3 percent of Massachusetts's total exports of goods in 2023.

Massachusetts's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was United Kingdom. Massachusetts exported $4.5 billion in goods to United Kingdom in 2025, representing 12 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• United Kingdom was followed by Canada ($3.1 billion), Mexico ($3.0 billion), China ($2.9 billion), and Germany ($2.5 billion).
• Massachusetts’s goods exports to major world areas included:

• 28 percent of Massachusetts goods exports ($11.0 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Massachusetts's Top Agricultural Exports

• Massachusetts was the country’s 44th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $240 million 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	$169 million	31
other livestock products	$30 million	38
fruits, fresh	$16 million	15
fruits, processed	$13 million	15
dairy products	$7 million	39

Massachusetts Seafood is a Key Export for the State

• Massachusetts was the country’s sixth largest seafood exporting state, shipping more than $316 million in domestic seafood exports abroad in 2025.

International Investment Creates Jobs in Massachusetts

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 238 thousand workers in Massachusetts. Major sources of foreign investment in Massachusetts included the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.

Massachusetts’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Massachusetts recorded goods exports: Boston-Cambridge-Newton ($29.9 billion), Providence-Warwick ($9.8 billion), Worcester ($2.4 billion), Springfield ($670 million), Pittsfield ($291.7 million), Amherst Town-Northampton ($290.8 million), and Barnstable Town ($166.9 million).