Where Your State Meets the World
Explore your state's goods trade with the world: its biggest customers, overseas suppliers, leading products, and changing relationships.
Goods trade only. Export origins and import destinations do not necessarily identify where goods were made or ultimately used.
01Three Findings From This View
02Trading partners
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Lines show trading relationships, not physical shipping routes.
These figures track reported goods trade. An export assigned to a state may have been produced elsewhere, and an import assigned to a state may be used elsewhere.
03What it trades
04One relationship, both directions
Choose a partner on the map or in the list to see both directions of trade with it.
05How It Has Changed
06How Concentrated Is It?
07What If One Relationship Changed?
08Compare Two States
09Explore a Country
Which states have the strongest goods-trade relationship with one country? Choose a country to rank every state by it.
10Fact Sheet, Downloads and Embeds
11The United States at a Glance, 2025
U.S. goods exports were $2.18T in 2025 and general imports were $3.41T, in nominal U.S. dollars.
Largest export markets, 2025
| # | Country | Exports | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexico | $337.3B | 15.5% |
| 2 | Canada | $333.6B | 15.3% |
| 3 | China | $106.0B | 4.9% |
| 4 | United Kingdom | $97.4B | 4.5% |
| 5 | Netherlands | $93.9B | 4.3% |
| 6 | Germany | $82.8B | 3.8% |
| 7 | Japan | $81.4B | 3.7% |
| 8 | Switzerland | $73.7B | 3.4% |
| 9 | South Korea | $69.1B | 3.2% |
| 10 | Taiwan | $54.8B | 2.5% |
Largest exporting states, 2025
| # | State | Exports | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | $448.2B | 20.6% |
| 2 | California | $188.2B | 8.6% |
| 3 | New York | $158.6B | 7.3% |
| 4 | Louisiana | $92.7B | 4.3% |
| 5 | Illinois | $80.2B | 3.7% |
| 6 | Florida | $79.1B | 3.6% |
| 7 | Indiana | $68.6B | 3.1% |
| 8 | Washington | $65.4B | 3.0% |
| 9 | Michigan | $60.3B | 2.8% |
| 10 | Georgia | $60.3B | 2.8% |
Shares of U.S. exports use the national total, which also includes Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and trade Census could not assign to a state, so the states shown add to less than 100% (by a few percent for exports).
12Methods, Definitions and Sources
What is counted. Goods only, in nominal U.S. dollars, from the Census Bureau's state export and import series. Services, investment, tourism and domestic supply chains are not included, so this is not a measure of total economic dependence.
Where trade is assigned. Exports are credited to the state of origin of movement: the state from which goods began their journey to the port of export. The Census Bureau notes this is not a measure of where goods were produced; when shipments are consolidated, the consolidation point is recorded. Imports are credited to the state of destination as reported when the goods entered the country, which may be a distribution point rather than where they are used. The Census Bureau discourages using state data to calculate state trade balances. Exports are total exports (domestic exports plus re-exports) valued free alongside ship; imports are general imports, valued at customs value. Census also publishes trade it cannot assign to a state (estimated low-value shipments and records with no state reported). Those amounts, along with Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are in the U.S. total but not in any state. The U.S. total is the state series' own national figure, which can differ slightly from the headline U.S. export and import totals because the headline figures include timing adjustments.
Products. Products follow the Harmonized System (HS): 2-digit chapters for every period and 4-digit headings for the latest two full years. Chapter and heading totals are never added together. Product-by-country detail is available for the latest two full years.
Periods. Full calendar years from 2010; year to date (the months published so far this year, compared with the same months last year); and the latest 12 months, built from monthly figures. Monthly values are not seasonally adjusted. Figures are the Census Bureau's current published values, including its annual revision each June, so they can differ from figures reported earlier.
Calculations. Shares use the official matching total, not only the partners shown. Percentage change is not shown when the earlier value is zero or missing; a change in share is given in percentage points. The top-three share is the three largest partners' combined share. The concentration index (Herfindahl-Hirschman, 0 to 1) is the sum of squared partner or product shares: near 0 for widely spread trade, 1 when everything goes to one partner. A substantial partner is one with at least 1% of the total unless you change the cutoff. Specialization is a product's share of this state's exports divided by its share of U.S. exports. Export-mix similarity is the cosine similarity of two states' product-share vectors, from 0 (nothing in common) to 1 (identical mix), at the HS chapter level for the latest full year. Findings are generated from fixed rules; a partner's contribution to a change is an accounting observation, not evidence of a cause, and growth rates are not reported for partners below $10 million in the earlier period. Scenarios are simple arithmetic and hold every other flow unchanged.
Missing values. No reported trade is shown as a dash, not as zero. Partner names and groupings are the source's own.
Data versions and updates
Data: monthly figures through August 2026 (latest full year 2025). Retrieved from the source October 26, 2026; dataset version v20261026. Each release is kept as a dated snapshot so a link can be frozen; the Share panel offers a live link or a snapshot link.
| Date | Version | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | v20261026 | First release. |
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau: State exports and imports
- U.S. Census Bureau: International trade API (state exports and imports by HS product and country)
- U.S. Census Bureau: Guide to foreign trade statistics, description of the statistical program
- Map outlines: Natural Earth via the world-atlas package (public domain); U.S. state outlines from the Census Bureau via us-atlas.
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