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Massachusetts flagNicknamed “The Bay State” and located in America’s northeastern region known as New England, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shipped US$38.8 billion worth of exported products around the globe in 2025.
That dollar amount represents an 18.8% increase from $32.7 billion four years earlier in 2022.
Year over year, the overall value of goods exported from Massachusetts accelerated by 10.8% compared to $35 billion during 2024.
Massachusetts ranks as America’s 17th biggest exporters by state lagging front-runners including Texas, California, New York state, Louisiana, Illinois and Florida.
The value of Massachusetts’ exports equals 1.8% of the United States’ overall exported products for 2025 ($2.178 trillion), up from 1.7% for 2024.
Massachusetts’ exported products represent 4.7% of the state’s total economic output or nominal Gross Domestic Product in 2025 ($820.1 billion).
Given Massachusetts’ population of over 7 million people, its total US$38.8 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $5,500 for every resident in the Bay State. That dollar metric exceeds the average $4,900 per capita one year earlier during 2024.
Massachusetts’ unemployment rate was 4.4% in July 2026, down from 4.5% one year earlier per YCharts.
The following export products represent the highest dollar value in Massachusetts global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Massachusetts.
Figures are shown at the more granular six-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, for more precise product identification.
- Unwrought gold: US$5 billion (12.8% of total Massachusettsan exports)
- Mixed immunological products (unmeasured doses): $2.1 billion (5.5%)
- Machinery for making semi-conductors: $1.7 billion (4.3%)
- Human medicine vaccines: $1.5 billion (3.9%)
- Medical, dental or veterinarian instruments: $1.1 billion (2.8%)
- Miscellaneous digital processing units: $914.1 million (2.4%)
- Diagnostic or laboratory reagents: $784 million (2%)
- Medical needles, catheters: $732.5 million (1.9%)
- Liquid filters, purification machines: $664.5 million (1.7%)
- Gold waste, scrap: $587 million (1.5%)
Massachusetts’ top 10 exports generated over one third (38.7%) of the overall value of the state’s global shipments.
Gold waste and scrap posted the fastest annual gain among Massachusetts’ top 10 export categories, up by 628.8% from 2024.
In second place were miscellaneous digital processing units (up 334.5%) trailed by mixed immunological products in unmeasured doses (up 67.7%), then unwrought gold (up 54.2%).
Exports from Massachusetts for liquid filters and purification machines (down -28.5% from 2024) and machinery for making semi-conductors (down -19.6%) recorded the severest year-over-year declines.
More Key Facts about Massachusetts’ International Trade
Massachusetts incurred an overall -US$4 billion deficit exporting and importing products during 2025. That dollar amount swelled by -50.7% compared to -$8.2 billion in red ink in 2024.
All told, imports into Massachusetts amounted to $42.8 billion during 2025.
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.
Below are Massachusetts’ top 10 import products highlighting the state’s highest spending on foreign-made goods in 2025.
- Precious metal items: US$2.05 billion (4.8% of total Massachusettsan imports)
- Light petroleum oils: $2.04 billion (4.8%)
- Artificial joints, parts and accessories: $1.8 billion (4.3%)
- Refined petroleum oils (not biodiesel): $1.5 billion (3.6%)
- Medical, dental or veterinarian instruments: $1.3 billion (3.1%)
- Natural gas (gaseous state): $1 billion (2.3%)
- Modems, similar reception/transmission devices: $706.3 million (1.6%)
- Medical needles, catheters: $661.9 million (1.5%)
- Frozen crabs: $641.1 million (1.5%)
- Medium-size automobiles (piston engine): $607 million (1.4%)
Massachusetts has highly negative net exports in the international trade of items made from precious metals as well as petroleum-related products. In turn, these cashflows indicate Massachusetts’ competitive disadvantages under related product categories.
Massachusetts’ Major Trading Partners
The following list shows the top 10 customers that purchase over two-thirds (67.7%) worth of the total value of products exported from Massachusetts during 2025.
- United Kingdom: US$4.5 billion (11.5% of total Massachusettsan exports)
- Canada: $3.2 billion (8.1%)
- Mexico: $3 billion (7.7%)
- mainland China: $2.8 billion (7.3%)
- Germany: $2.47 billion (6.4%)
- Belgium: $2.46 billion (6.3%)
- Switzerland: $2.4 billion (6.3%)
- Singapore: $2 billion (5.2%)
- Netherlands: $1.8 billion (4.5%)
- Japan: $1.7 billion (4.3%)
Massachusetts’ top trade partners in Europe (United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands) imported 35.1% of the overall value of exported goods from the Bay State.
Asia’s percentage compares at 16.8% of export sales from Massachusetts arriving mostly in mainland China, Singapore and Japan).
Another 15.8% went to top Massachusettsan customers in Canada and Mexico.
Massachusettsan Export Companies
Over 40 Massachusetts-based corporations rank among Fortune 1000 Companies, a list that showcases America’s largest businesses. Selected examples are shown below.
- Analog Devices, Inc (semiconductors, data conversion technology)
- Biogen (biotechnology therapies)
- Boston Scientific Corp (medical devices)
- Cabot Corp (specialty chemicals, materials)
- Nuance Communications (specialty software, speech recognition)
- PerkinElmer, Inc (analytical instruments, lab technology)
- Skyworks Solutions (semiconductors, amplifiers)
- Thermo Fisher Scientific (genetic testing, precision lab equipment)
- Waters Corp (laboratory instruments, software)
- Wayfair, Inc (ecommerce seller of home products)
Shown within brackets for each company is a summary of the international trade-related products or services which each business sells.
The capital of Massachusetts is Boston, a city nicknamed “Beantown”, “America’s Walking City” and “The City of Champions”.
See also Oklahoma’s Top 10 Exports, Alaska’s Top 10 Exports, Oregon’s Top 10 Exports, Louisiana’s Top 10 Exports and Washington State’s Top 10 Exports
Research Sources:
FlagPictures.org, Flags of US States. Accessed on September 3, 2026
Forbes, Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on September 3, 2026
GeoLounge, Fortune 1000 Companies List for 2022 , Fortune 1000 by State and Place. Accessed on September 3, 2026
IBIS World, Real gross domestic product of Massachusetts. Accessed on September 3, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on September 3, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on September 3, 2026
United States Census Bureau, QuickFacts: Massachusetts. Accessed on September 3, 2026
USA Trade Online, Official Source of Trade Statistics. Accessed on September 3, 2026
Wikipedia, Massachusetts. Accessed on September 3, 2026
Wikipedia, List of Massachusetts Companies. Accessed on September 3, 2026
Wikipedia, List of U.S. states and territories by GDP. Accessed on September 3, 2026
YCharts, Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Report. Accessed on September 3, 2026


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