Maine

Maine Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Maine exported $3.2 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Maine supported an estimated 11 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Maine and Jobs

• Maine was the 45th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Maine goods exports were $3.2 billion, an increase of 15 percent ($424 million) from its export level in 2015.
• Maine goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 11 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 Maine and Jobs

• In 2025, Maine exported $2.2 billion of manufactured products.
• Maine exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 7,000 jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was transportation equipment, which accounted for $750 million of Maine's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were paper ($287 million), computer & electronic products ($285 million), chemicals ($228 million), and machinery, except electrical ($148 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Maine Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 1,676 companies exported from Maine locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 1,390 (83 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 51.1 percent of Maine's total exports of goods in 2023.

Maine's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Canada. Maine exported $1.3 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 41 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Malaysia ($120 million), the Netherlands ($115 million), Japan ($114 million), and United Arab Emirates ($109 million).
• Maine goods exports to major world areas included:

 

• 50 percent of Maine goods exports ($1.6 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Maine's Top Agricultural Exports

• Maine was the country’s 42nd largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $314 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	$131 million	38
vegetables, processed	$52 million	18
other livestock products	$46 million	32
vegetables, fresh	$27 million	18
dairy products	$20 million	32

Maine Seafood is a Key Export for the State

• Maine was the country’s fourth largest seafood exporting state, shipping more than $378 million in domestic seafood exports abroad in 2025.

International Investment Creates Jobs in Maine

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 36 thousand workers in Maine. Major sources of foreign investment in Maine included Canada, the United Kingdom, and France.

Maine’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Maine recorded goods exports: Portland-South Portland ($1.2 billion), Bangor ($337.3 million), and Lewiston-Auburn ($161.2 million).