New Jersey

New Jersey Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, New Jersey exported $44.2 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from New Jersey supported an estimated 119,000 jobs (latest data available).

Exports from New Jersey and Jobs

• New Jersey was the 15th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, New Jersey goods exports were $44.2 billion, an increase of 38 percent ($12 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• New Jersey goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 119,000 jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.

Manufacturing Exports from New Jersey and Jobs

• In 2025, New Jersey exported $38.3 billion of manufactured products.
• New Jersey’s exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 110,000 jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was chemicals, which accounted for $11.4 billion of New Jersey's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were computer & electronic products ($6.2 billion), primary metal manufacturing ($5.2 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($3.7 billion), and machinery, except electrical ($2.3 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of New Jersey Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 19,049 companies exported from New Jersey locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 17,318 (91 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 40.6 percent of New Jersey's total exports of goods in 2023.

New Jersey's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Canada. New Jersey exported $7.3 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 17 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Mexico ($3.4 billion), the Netherlands ($2.2 billion), the United Kingdom ($2.2 billion), and Germany ($2.1 billion).
• New Jersey goods exports to major world areas included:

• 36 percent of New Jersey goods exports ($15.7 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

New Jersey's Top Agricultural Exports

• New Jersey was the country’s 37th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $737 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	$554 million	12
other livestock products	$29 million	39
fruits, fresh	$26 million	12
soybeans	$24 million	28
fruits, processed	$21 million	12

International Investment Creates Jobs in New Jersey

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 310 thousand workers in New Jersey. Major sources of foreign investment in New Jersey included France, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

New Jersey’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in New Jersey recorded goods exports: New York-Newark-Jersey City ($99.4 billion), Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington ($29.1 billion), Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton ($5.2 billion), Trenton-Princeton ($1.4 billion), Vineland ($616.7 million), and Atlantic City-Hammonton ($117.1 million).