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Kansas state flagNicknamed “The Sunflower State” and “The Wheat State” located in America’s Midwestern region, Kansas shipped US$14.6 billion worth of products around the world in 2025.
That dollar amount results from a 4.3% increase from $14 billion four years earlier in 2022.
Year over year, the overall value of Kansan exported goods rose 1% compared to $14.5 billion for 2024.
Kansas ranks as America’s 32nd biggest exporter by state behind front- behind front-runners including Texas, California, New York State, Louisiana, Illinois and Florida. The value of Kansas’ exports equals 0.7% of the value for United States’ overall exported products for 2025.
Kansas’ exported products represent 6.1% of the state’s total economic output or nominal Gross Domestic Product in 2025 ($241.4 billion), down from 6.2% for the prior year.
Given Kansas’ population of 3 million people, its total US$14.6 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $4,900 for every resident in the Sunflower State. That dollar metric surpasses the average $4,750 per capita in 2024.
Kansas’ unemployment rate was 3.8% at the end of September 2026, same as 3.8% for September 30, 2025 per YCharts.
The following export products represent the highest dollar value in Kansas global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Kansas.
Figures are shown at the more granular six-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, for more precise product identification.
- Civilian aircraft, aircraft engines or other parts: US$3.3 billion (22.9% of total Kansan exports)
- Fresh or chilled beef (boneless): $876.1 million (6%)
- Corn: $783.1 million (5.4%)
- Wheat, meslin: $405.5 million (2.8%)
- Fresh or chilled pork (bone-in): $381.5 million (2.6%)
- Machines to receive/convert/transmit voice, image, data: $328.7 million (2.2%)
- Dog or cat food for retail sale: $293.2 million (2%)
- Frozen beef (boneless): $276.1 million (1.9%)
- Soya beans: $275.6 million (1.9%)
- Soya bean oilcake, other solid residues: $203.4 million (1.4%)
Kansas’ top 10 exports accounted for 49% of the overall value of the state’s global shipments.
Solid residues including soya bean oilcake posted the strongest growth among Kansas’ top 10 export categories, up by 84.4% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place for improving export sales was fresh or chilled port with bone-in which rose 47.2%.
Kansas’ shipments of corn (maize) appreciated by 42% compared to 2024, ahead of exported civilian aircraft either fully assembled or aircraft engines or other aircraft parts (up 26.7%).
The year-over-year decliners among Kansas’ top 10 export products were frozen boneless beef thanks to a -38.3% set back from 2024, fresh or chilled boneless beef (down -11.8%), dog or cat food ready for retail sale (down -1.2%) then soya beans (down -0.4%).
More Key Facts about Kansas’ International Trade
Kansas earned an overall US$694.6 million trade surplus exporting and importing products during 2025. That dollar amount reverses a -$14.8 million surplus for 2024.
Another way of saying surplus or deficit is positive or negative net exports. In a nutshell, the term “net exports” quantifies the amount by which foreign spending on a state’s goods or services exceeds or lags that same state’s spending on foreign goods or services.
Overall imports into Kansas totaled US$13.9 billion during 2025.
Below are Kansas’ top 10 import products highlighting the state’s highest spending on foreign-made goods in 2025.
- Airplane or helicopter parts: US$808.1 million (5.8% of total Kansan imports)
- Machines to receive/convert/transmit voice, image, data: $633.6 million (4.6%)
- Tractors: $490.8 million (3.5%)
- Works trucks, forklifts: $412.7 million (3%)
- Radio navigational instruments: $203.2 million (1.5%)
- Taps, valves, similar pipe-related items: $180.6 million (1.3%)
- Larger aircraft: $170.6 million (1.2%)
- Air conditioner parts: $147.1 million (1.1%)
- Miscellaneous navigational instruments: $146.2 million (1.1%)
- Mechanical front-end shovel excavators: $137.6 million (1%)
Historically, Kansas has experienced negative net exports in the international trade of aircraft parts, tractors, task-related trucks and forklifts. In turn, these cashflows indicate Kansas’ competitive disadvantages under these product categories.
Kansas’ Major Trade Partners
The following list shows the top 10 customers that purchased almost three-quarters (73%) worth of the total value of products exported from Kansas during 2025.
- Mexico: US$3.8 billion (25.7% of total Kansan exports)
- Canada: $2.4 billion (16.3%)
- Japan: $914.8 million (6.3%)
- Germany: $638 million (4.4%)
- South Korea: $559.5 million (3.8%)
- United Kingdom: $537.1 million (3.7%)
- Brazil: $526.4 million (3.6%)
- mainland China: $476.5 million (3.3%)
- France: $446.9 million (3.1%)
- Singapore: $426.2 million (2.9%)
Kansas’ top trade partners in North America (Mexico and Canada) bought two-fifths (42%) of the overall value of exported goods from the Sunflower State.
In comparison, major trade partners in Asia (Japan, South Korea, mainland China and Singapore) imported 16.3% worth of Kansas’ total export sales for 2025.
Top importers in Europe amounted to 11.1% of the overall total.
Kansan Export Companies
Six of Kansas-based corporations rank among Fortune 1000 Companies, a list that showcases America’s largest businesses. Selected examples are listed below.
- Ferrellgas Partners (propane)
- Lansing Trade Group (grains, commodities trading, ethanol)
- Seaboard Corp (agribusiness, electrical power, transportation)
- Spirit AeroSystems Holdings (aerospace/defense industry goods)
- Westar Energy (electricity)
- YRC Worldwide (freight shipping)
Shown within brackets for each company is a summary of the products or services which each business sells, some of which are related to international trade.
Kansas’ capital is Topeka, a city nicknamed “T-Town” and “Top City”.
See also North Dakota’s Top 10 Exports, Montana’s Top 10 Exports, Wisconsin’s Top 10 Exports, Arizona’s Top 10 Exports and Vermont’s Top 10 Exports
Research Sources:
Department of Numbers, Kansas GDP (dollars shown in real terms). Accessed on October 21, 2026
FlagPictures.org, Flags of US States. Accessed on October 21, 2026
Forbes, 2022 Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on October 21, 2026
GeoLounge, Fortune 1000 Companies List for 2022 , Fortune 1000 by State and Place. Accessed on October 21, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on October 21, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on October 21, 2026
State Symbols USA, State Nicknames. Accessed on October 21, 2026
Statista, Real gross domestic product of Kansas. Accessed on October 21, 2026
United States Census Bureau, QuickFacts: Kansas. Accessed on October 21, 2026
USA Trade Online, Official Source of Trade Statistics. Accessed on October 21, 2026
Wikipedia, Kansas. Accessed on October 21, 2026
Wikipedia, List of Kansas Companies. Accessed on October 21, 2026
Wikipedia, List of U.S. states and territories by GDP. Accessed on October 21, 2026
YCharts, Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Report. Accessed on October 21, 2026
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