Minnesota

Minnesota Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Minnesota exported $23.5 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Minnesota supported an estimated 101 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Minnesota and Jobs

• Minnesota was the 23rd largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Minnesota goods exports were $23.5 billion, an increase of 17 percent ($3.5 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Minnesota goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 101 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 Minnesota and Jobs

• In 2025, Minnesota exported $21.8 billion of manufactured products.
• Minnesota’s exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 76 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was computer & electronic products, which accounted for $4.4 billion of Minnesota's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were machinery, except electrical ($3.3 billion), transportation equipment ($2.3 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($2.1 billion), and food & kindred products ($2.0 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Minnesota Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 7,946 companies exported from Minnesota locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 6,785 (85 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 25.8 percent of Minnesota's total exports of goods in 2023.

Minnesota's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Canada. Minnesota exported $5.6 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 24 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Mexico ($3.6 billion), China ($1.5 billion), Japan ($969 million), and Ireland ($839 million).
• Minnesota goods exports to major world areas included:

• 50 percent of Minnesota goods exports ($11.8 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Minnesota's Top Agricultural Exports

• Minnesota was the country’s 4th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $8.3 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
soybeans	$1.8 billion	4
corn	$1.3 billion	4
pork	$1.1 billion	2
feeds and other feed grains	$893 million	4
other plant products	$820 million	6

International Investment Creates Jobs in Minnesota

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 164 thousand workers in Minnesota. Major sources of foreign investment in Minnesota included Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Minnesota’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Minnesota recorded goods exports: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington ($21.7 billion), Duluth ($1.3 billion), Fargo ($819.2 million), Sioux Falls ($531.1 million), La Crosse-Onalaska ($436.3 million), Grand Forks ($377.6 million), Mankato ($303 million), Rochester ($264.4 million), and St. Cloud ($252.9 million).