New York

New York Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, New York exported a record $153.1 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from New York supported an estimated 250 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from New York and Jobs

• New York was the 3rd largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, New York goods exports were $153.1 billion, an increase of 84 percent ($70 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• New York goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 250 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 New York and Jobs

• In 2025, New York exported $137.5 billion of manufactured products.
• New York’s exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 221 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was primary metal manufacturing, which accounted for $83.1 billion of New York's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($18.6 billion), computer & electronic products ($9.0 billion), chemicals ($6.1 billion), and machinery, except electrical ($4.9 billion).

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

• A total of 32,079 companies exported from New York locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 29,808 (93 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 53.4 percent of New York's total exports of goods in 2023.

New York's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Switzerland. New York exported $53.4 billion in goods to Switzerland in 2025, representing 35 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Switzerland was followed by the United Kingdom ($17.7 billion), Canada ($16.5 billion), Hong Kong ($12.6 billion), and France ($4.7 billion).
• New York goods exports to major world areas included:

• 22 percent of New York goods exports ($33.2 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

New York's Top Agricultural Exports

• New York was the country’s 28th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $1.9 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
dairy products	$616 million	5
other plant products	$545 million	13
soybeans	$101 million	22
fruits, fresh	$92 million	6
corn	$79 million	22

International Investment Creates Jobs in New York

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 563 thousand workers in New York. Major sources of foreign investment in New York included the United Kingdom, Japan, and France.

New York’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in New York recorded goods exports: New York-Newark-Jersey City ($99.4 billion), Buffalo-Cheektowaga ($5.2 billion), Rochester ($4.3 billion), Albany-Schenectady-Troy ($3.4 billion), Syracuse ($2.4 billion), Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh ($1.5 billion), Utica-Rome ($1.1 billion), Binghamton ($334.2 million), Glens Falls ($234 million), Kingston ($217.6 million), Watertown-Fort Drum ($201.4 million), Ithaca ($170 million), and Elmira ($166.3 million).