Biggest exports from Washington
The U.S. trade deficit neared $1 trillion in 2022, hitting a record high.
At the same time, total exports grew faster than imports, and select U.S. exports are experiencing particularly high surges. The war in Ukraine led many European countries to import U.S. oil as they largely stopped importing from Russia. U.S. farm exports surpassed records as values grew across main markets, including China, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and the European Union.
Nationwide, the largest 2022 exports were fuel, oil, and byproducts; nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; electronics; vehicles; and aircraft, spacecraft, and aerospace parts. But each state specializes in its own combination of commodities that contribute to the national export catalog.
Stacker compiled a list of the 30 largest exports from Washington in 2022 using trade data from the Census Bureau. Stacker considered all 98 export categories included in the global harmonized system in its rankings. Read on to see the top exports in your state.
#30. Furniture; bedding, mattresses, and stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
#29. Pharmaceutical products
#28. Edible preparations of meat, fish, crustaceans, etc.
#27. Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials
#26. Inorganic chemicals; precious and rare earth metals and radioactive compounds
#25. Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones and metals and articles thereof; immitation jewellery; coins
#24. Articles of iron or steel
#23. Food industry residues and waste; prepared animal feed
#22. Meat and edible meat offal
#21. Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard
#20. Toys, games and sport equipment; parts and accessories
#19. Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
#18. Aluminum and articles thereof
#17. Plastics and articles thereof
#16. Iron and steel
#15. Miscellaneous chemical products
#14. Dairy prods; birds eggs; honey; other edible animal products
#13. Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories
#12. Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, paper or paperboard
#11. Fish, crustaceans and aquatic invertebrates
#10. Prepared vegetables, fruit, nuts or other plant parts
#9. Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
#8. Edible fruit and nuts; citrus fruit or melon peel
#7. Electrical machinery and equipment and parts; sound and TV recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories
#6. Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
#5. Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery etc.; parts
#4. Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
#3. Cereals
#2. Oil seeds; miscellaneous grain, seed, fruit, plants, etc.
