Missouri

Missouri Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Missouri exported $18.7 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Missouri supported an estimated 74 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Missouri and Jobs

• Missouri was the 26th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Missouri goods exports were $18.7 billion, an increase of 37 percent ($5.0 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Missouri goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 74 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 Missouri and Jobs

• In 2025, Missouri exported $16.1 billion of manufactured products.
• Missouri’s exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 55 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was transportation equipment, which accounted for $4.8 billion of Missouri's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were chemicals ($3.7 billion), machinery, except electrical ($1.6 billion), food & kindred products ($1.4 billion), and other fabricated metal products ($871 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Missouri Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 5,842 companies exported from Missouri locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 4,893 (84 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 26.5 percent of Missouri's total exports of goods in 2023.

Missouri's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Canada. Missouri exported $5.8 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 31 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Mexico ($4.3 billion), Israel ($736 million), Germany ($704 million), and India ($621 million).
• Missouri goods exports to major world areas included:

• 64 percent of Missouri goods exports ($11.9 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Missouri's Top Agricultural Exports

• Missouri was the country’s 10th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $5.1 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	$1.5 billion	7
corn	$514 million	9
soybean meal	$398 million	7
feeds and other feed grains	$385 million	9
pork	$378 million	7

International Investment Creates Jobs in Missouri

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 133 thousand workers in Missouri. Major sources of foreign investment in Missouri included the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.

Missouri’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Missouri recorded goods exports: St. Louis ($16 billion), Kansas City ($10.9 billion), St. Joseph ($753.4 million), Columbia ($494.8 million), Springfield ($396 million), Joplin ($341.8 million), Jefferson City ($332.9 million), and Cape Girardeau ($142.5 million).