Vermont

Vermont Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Vermont exported $2.1 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Vermont supported an estimated 6,000 jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Vermont and Jobs

• Vermont was the 47th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Vermont goods exports were $2.1 billion, a decrease of 35 percent ($1.1 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Vermont goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 6,000 jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.

Manufacturing Exports from Vermont and Jobs

• In 2025, Vermont exported $2.0 billion of manufactured products.
• Vermont exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 6,000 jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was computer & electronic products, which accounted for $626 million of Vermont total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were transportation equipment ($298 million), food & kindred products ($260 million), machinery, except electrical ($202 million), and miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($167 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Vermont Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 1,008 companies exported from Vermont locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 873 (87 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 34.8 percent of Vermont's total exports of goods in 2023.

Vermont's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Canada. Vermont exported $631 million in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 31 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Taiwan ($268 million), Germany ($257 million), China ($115 million), and the Netherlands ($80 million).
• Vermont goods exports to major world areas included:

• 41 percent of Vermont goods exports ($844 million) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Vermont's Top Agricultural Exports

• Vermont was the country’s 45th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $239 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	$114 million	40
dairy products	$96 million	19
beef and veal	$11 million	41
other livestock products	$8 million	46
feeds and other feed grains	$3 million	44

International Investment Creates Jobs in Vermont

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed an estimated 14 thousand Vermont workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Vermont included Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.

Vermont’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the Burlington-South Burlington metropolitan area of Vermont recorded $1.2 billion of goods exports.