Exports in the United States increased to 289.37 USD Billion in April from 281.07 USD Billion in March of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Exports - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Over the past three decades, the total volume of the trade goods exported from the United States experienced an overall positive trend and grew significantly. However, periods of global economic turmoil took its toll on this growth along the way. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, the U.S. export volume of trade goods suffered a substantial decline, marking the end of a six-year tre4d of uninterrupted growth. In the following 13-year period between 2010 and 2024, the volume of export trade goods had a rather unstable profile, with noticeable fluctuations. The total volume of exported trade goods from the U.S. fell to about 1.42 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020, illustrating the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the country’s international trade activities. Nevertheless, the export volume of trade goods recovered rapidly in the following years, reaching over two trillion U.S. dollars in 2024. U.S. International trade    The United States is the second largest trade goods exporter in the world, and has a total annual export value (services and goods combined) of over two trillion U.S. dollars. That said, for the last two decades, the U.S. had a trade deficit in trade goods, making the country a net importer of goods in terms of trade value. The majority of the goods the country is exporting are manufactures.   U.S. export destinations

   The top two destinations of U.S. exports are, unsurprisingly, the country’s northern and southern neighbors, namely Canada and Mexico. The volume of U.S. export of trade goods to Canada alone oscillated between 250 billion U.S. dollars and over 300 billion U.S. dollars in the last decade.

In 2024, China exported approximately 3.58 trillion U.S. dollars worth of goods. This indicated an increase in export value of about 5.9 percent compared to the previous year. Export of goods from ChinaChina’s exports have been growing steadily over the past decade, with the exception of 2009 when financial crisis and global economic downturn slowed down global trade and 2016 witnessing another decrease in global demand. Apart from being the most populous country, China has also become the largest manufacturing economy and the largest exporter in the world. ASEAN, European Union, and United States were China's leading export partners in 2023. Machinery such as computers, broadcasting technology, and telephones as well as transport equipment make up the largest part of Chinese exports. This category amounted to approximately 1.65 trillion U.S. dollars in export value in 2023. When it comes to primary goods, food and live animals used for food are the main export products.

Key information about United States Total Exports

• United States Total Exports recorded 171.6 USD bn in Jan 2025, compared with 168.8 USD bn in the previous month
• US Total Exports data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1989 to Jan 2025, with an averaged value of 86.4 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of 181.2 USD bn in Jul 2022 and a record low of 28.4 USD bn in Jan 1989

• In the latest reports, US Total Exports dropped 7.9 % YoY in May 2023
• Total Imports recorded 327.1 USD bn in Jan 2025, which registered an increase of 26.1 % year on year
• US Trade Balance recorded a deficit of 155.6 USD bn in Jan 2025

In April 2025, China’s total exports surged by *** percent year-over-year. This marked a strong rebound from the contraction seen in the previous month.Export industry developmentIn the past decade, China has been the largest exporter of goods in the world, accounting for nearly ***** percent of the total global merchandise exports as of 2023. The country’s exports dropped significantly the year after the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, yet reached its record growth of 31.3 percent in 2010. Chinese export growth has been decelerating as a result of the Sino-U.S. trade war between 2017 and 2020. The outbreak of the global Coronavirus pandemic, however, provided the country with a new opportunity in its export trade. That year, China recorded over ** percent year-on-year growth in exports.Export partnersASEAN countries, the the United States, and European Union were China’s leading export trade partners in 2024. These regions accounted for around ********** of all exports from China that year. That year, China also hit another record for exports to countries along the BRI (belt-and-road initiative).

In 2024, the European Union countries imported approximately 14.4 percent of the Chinese export volume. In that year, ASEAN was the largest Chinese merchandise importer. Distribution of Chinese exports In 2024, China exported goods with a total value of around 25.5 trillion yuan and imported goods with a value of 18.4 trillion yuan. That year, China ranked second among the countries with the largest gross domestic product, following the United States.China’s economic prosperity has been closely related to its status as the world’s factory. For about a decade between 2005 and 2015, exports contributed more than 20 percent to China’s gross domestic product. However, the share of exports to GDP contribution is currently on the decline. Nonetheless, China maintains a trade surplus of about 992 billion U.S. dollars and remains first among countries with the highest trade surplus worldwide as of 2023. While China displays high growth potential for service exports such as tourism, transportation, banking and financial services, as well as insurance and education services, the main focus of China’s export industry remains merchandise. In 2022, Chinese merchandise exports made up 14.4 percent of all global exports, whereas service based exports contributed only six percent.In terms of most exported merchandise categories, food and live animals used for food were the main primary goods. Among the manufactured goods, automatic data processing machines, integrated circuits, clothing, textiles, and smartphones were the categories with the highest export value in China in 2024.

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Key information about China Total Exports to USA

• China Total Exports to USA recorded 48.830 USD bn in Dec 2024, compared with 47.309 USD bn in the previous Nov 2024
• China Total Exports to USA data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1981 to Dec 2024, with an averaged value of 6.676 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of 57.397 USD bn in Sep 2021 and a record low of 78.416 USD mn in Feb 1981

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In terms of value, the exports of Explosive dropped to $43 million in July 2023.

In 2020, Animal Food exports reached record highs of 1.9M tons, but from 2021 to 2023, they saw a slight decline. The value of exports also decreased to $1.8B in 2023.

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The United States exported nearly 108,000 metric tons of scrap plastic in the first quarter of 2023. This was an increase of about 10 percent from the previous quarter. In comparison, the U.S. exported more than 320,000 metric tons of scrap plastic in the first quarter of 2018, but shipments plummeted short after. This drop in exports was mainly due to China's ban on importing foreign waste items, which impacted many exporting countries around the world. While U.S. plastic waste shipments have been decreasing, U.S. scrap plastic imports have been on the rise in recent years, signaling increased domestic recycling activity.

In the years between 1790 and 1970, merchandise (i.e. tangible goods, including agricultural and military wares) made up the largest share of U.S. exports in almost every year. Generally, taxation on private, foreign investments made up the second-largest share of U.S. imports, although there is an observable increase in transportation exports during the First World war, and "other" transactions during the Second World War. Merchandise exports were also impacted by global events, with spikes during both wars and a steep drop following the Wall Street Crash. Additionally, as U.S. influence across the globe grew following the Second World war, the value of exports grew substantially during the 1950s and 1960s.

In 2022, China's food exports to the United States amounted to around 4.03 billion U.S. dollars. This presents a decline from about 4.05 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year.

The Asian financial crisis caused a decline in most states' exports of manufactured goods to East Asia during 1998, but the severity of the decline varied across states. In this article, the authors estimate the size of this export shock for all states. Primarily because western states tend to be more dependent on East Asian markets for export sales, they were hit the hardest by the sharp reduction in Asian demand for United States-produced manufactured goods. Of the states in which the decline in exports to East Asia lowered the growth of manufacturing output by more than 1 percent, two-thirds were western states. The export changes caused by the Asian crisis, however, were found to matter little for manufacturing employment growth across states during 1998. Meanwhile, states with a high concentration of manufacturing industries that use petroleum products extensively as an input tended to have larger manufacturing employment increases during 1998 than other states. Consequently, the authors conclude that the oil price declines during late 1997 and 1998, some portion of which can be attributed to the Asian crisis, appear to be more important than the export effects in influencing manufacturing employment across states.

Canada is by far the leading destination for scrap plastic exports from the United States, with 142 thousand metric tons in 2024. Mexico followed that year, with over 87 thousand tons of plastic scraps imported. China was once the main export destination for much of the world's plastic scrap, but in 2018 it introduced a ban on the import of such materials. Since then, plastic waste exports from the U.S. have dropped considerably.

United States Exports: Milling Machine Knee Type Remove Met N Numerical Cont data was reported at 0.123 USD mn in Jan 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.089 USD mn for Dec 2024. United States Exports: Milling Machine Knee Type Remove Met N Numerical Cont data is updated monthly, averaging 0.254 USD mn from Jan 2002 (Median) to Jan 2025, with 277 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.935 USD mn in Feb 2012 and a record low of 0.017 USD mn in Jan 2024. United States Exports: Milling Machine Knee Type Remove Met N Numerical Cont data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.JA026: Exports: by Commodity: 6 Digit HS Code: HS 72 to 84.

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Exports of goods and services of Cabo Verde rocketed by 19.08% from 972,635,791 US dollars in 2023 to 1,158,230,560 US dollars in 2024. Since the 57.90% drop in 2020, exports of goods and services shot up by 173.65% in 2024. Exports of goods and services comprise all transactions between residents of a country and the rest of the world involving a change of ownership from residents to nonresidents of general merchandise, net exports of goods under merchanting, nonmonetary gold, and services. Data are in current U.S. dollars.