Nevada

Nevada Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Nevada exported a record $12.7 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Nevada supported an estimated 27 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Nevada and Jobs

• Nevada was the 33rd largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Nevada goods exports were $12.7 billion, an increase of 46 percent ($4.0 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Nevada goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 27 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 Nevada and Jobs

• In 2025, Nevada exported $11.4 billion of manufactured products.
• Nevada’s exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 24 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was computer & electronic products, which accounted for $3.9 billion of Nevada's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were primary metal manufacturing ($3.2 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($1.2 billion), electrical equipment, appliances & components ($745 million), and chemicals ($468 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Nevada Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 3,697 companies exported from Nevada locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 3,156 (85 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 28.7 percent of Nevada's total exports of goods in 2023.

Nevada's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Mexico. Nevada exported $1.7 billion in goods to Mexico in 2025, representing 13 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Mexico was followed by Canada ($1.6 billion), Switzerland ($1.6 billion), India ($1.5 billion), and Taiwan ($621 million).
• Nevada goods exports to major world areas included:

• 35 percent of Nevada goods exports ($4.5 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Nevada's Top Agricultural Exports

• Nevada was the country’s 46th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $201 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	$80 million	42
beef and veal	$53 million	33
dairy products	$28 million	31
feeds and other feed grains	$17 million	39
other livestock products	$10 million	45

International Investment Creates Jobs in Nevada

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 74 thousand workers in Nevada. Major sources of foreign investment in Nevada included Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

Nevada’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Nevada recorded goods exports: Reno ($3.4 billion), Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas ($2.8 billion), and Carson City ($243.6 million).