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Wyoming Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Wyoming exported $2.0 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Wyoming supported an estimated 6,000 jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Wyoming and Jobs

  • Wyoming was the 48th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
  • In 2025, Wyoming goods exports were $2.0 billion, an increase of 70 percent ($825 million) from its export level in 2015.
  • Wyoming 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 Wyoming and Jobs

  • In 2025, Wyoming exported $1.9 billion of manufactured products.
  • Wyoming exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 5,000 jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
  • The state's largest manufacturing export category was chemicals, which accounted for $1.3 billion of Wyoming total goods exports in 2025.
  • Other top manufacturing exports were petroleum & coal products ($156 million), computer & electronic products ($141 million), machinery, except electrical ($101 million), and transportation equipment ($65 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Wyoming Businesses many of which are SMEs

  • A total of 548 companies exported from Wyoming locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 447 (82 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
  • Small and medium-sized firms generated 30.8 percent of Wyoming total exports of goods in 2023.

Wyoming's Largest Export Markets

  • The state’s largest export market was Canada. Wyoming exported $489 million in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 24 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
  • Canada was followed by Chile ($222 million), Brazil ($175 million), Indonesia ($131 million), and Paraguay ($116 million).
  • Wyoming goods exports to major world areas included:

 

2025 Value

APEC

$1.3 billion

Asia

$577 million

European Union

$60 million

South/Central America and Caribbean

$686 million

Sub-Saharan Africa 

$6 million

  • 49 percent of Wyoming goods exports ($980 million) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Wyoming's Top Agricultural Exports

  • Wyoming was the country’s 41st largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $335 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

beef and veal

$136 million

20

other plant products

$55 million

48

other livestock products

$40 million

35

feeds and other feed grains

$38 million

35

grain products, processed

$15 million

36

International Investment Creates Jobs in Wyoming

  • In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 9,300 Wyoming workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Wyoming included the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland.

Wyoming’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

  • In 2024 (latest data available), there were no metropolitan areas with significant recorded goods exports.

Estimates of state exports of agricultural products by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and goods exports by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce are based on different methodologies and are not directly comparable.