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Pennsylvania state flagNicknamed the “Keystone State” or “Quaker State” and located in America’s northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions, Pennsylvania shipped US$52.2 billion worth of exported products around the world in 2025.
That dollar amount results from a 4.8% increase from $49.8 billion four years earlier in 2022.
Year over year, the overall value of Pennsylvanian exports declined by -2.3% compared to $53.5 billion during 2024.
Pennsylvania ranks as America’s 12th biggest exporter by state lagging front-runners including Texas, California, New York state, Louisiana, Illinois and Florida.
The value of Pennsylvania’s exports equals 2.4% of the United States’ overall exported products for 2025 ($2.178 trillion), lagging Pennsylvania’s 2.6% one year earlier.
Pennsylvania’s exported products represent 4.9% of the state’s total economic output or nominal Gross Domestic Product in 2025 ($1.056 trillion).
Given Pennsylvania’s population of 13.1 million people, its total US$52.2 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $4,000 for every resident in the Quaker State. That dollar metric lags the average $4,100 per capita for 2024.
Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was 4.2% at the end of April 2026, mirroring the 4.2% one year prior per YCharts.
The following export products represent the highest dollar value in Pennsylvania global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Pennsylvania.
Figures are shown at the more granular six-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, for more precise product identification.
- Human medicine vaccines: US$2.4 billion (4.5% of total Pennsylvanian exports)
- Liquified propane: $2.3 billion (4.4%)
- Immunological products for retail sale: $2.1 billion (4.1%)
- Coal (non-agglomerated, bituminous): $1.54 billion (2.9%)
- Miscellaneous medications in dosage for retail sale: $1.46 billion (2.8%)
- Smartphones: $1.1 billion (2.1%)
- Modems, similar reception/transmission devices: $706.7 million (1.4%)
- Civilian aircraft, engines or other aircraft parts: $691.9 million (1.3%)
- Bombs, mines, similar ammunition: $595 million (1.1%)
- Liquified butanes: $524.9 million (1%)
Pennsylvania’s top 10 exports generated just over one-quarter (25.6%) of the overall value of the state’s global shipments.
Bombs, mines and similar ammunition were the fastest grower among the leading Pennsylvanian export product categories, increasing by 51.2% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place were liquified butanes (up 20.2%) ahead of exported smartphones (up 16.4%) and immunological products packaged for retail sale (up 11%).
There were 3 double-digit decliners among Pennsylvania’s top 10 export products: miscellaneous medications in dosage packaged for retail sale (down -24.3% from 2024), modems and similar reception or transmission devices (down -17.8%), then non- agglomerated, bituminous coal (down -16.3%).
More Key Facts about Pennsylvania’s International Trade
Pennsylvania incurred an overall -US$83.8 billion trade deficit exporting and importing products during 2025. That dollar amount reflects a 13.6% year-over-year expansion from -$73.8 billion in red ink 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.
Pennsylvanian imports totaled $136 billion for 2025.
Below are Pennsylvania’s top 10 import products highlighting the state’s highest spending on foreign-made goods in 2025.
- Immunological products for retail sale: US$15.4 billion (11.3% of total Pennsylvanian imports)
- Miscellaneous medications in dosage for retail sale: $13 billion (9.6%)
- Miscellaneous digital processing units: $9.9 billion (7.3%)
- Smartphones: $3.9 billion (2.9%)
- Crude petroleum oils: $3.81 billion (2.8%)
- Human medicine vaccines: $3.81 billion (2.8%)
- Small portable computers: $3.5 billion (2.6%)
- Mid-sized automobiles (piston engine): $2.6 billion (1.9%)
- Beef (boneless, frozen): $1.9 billion (1.4%)
- Automobiles (both spark ignition, electric motors): $1.6 billion (1.2%)
Pennsylvania has highly negative net exports especially in the international trade of a wide variety of medicines, mobile phones and crude petroleum oils. In turn, these cashflows indicate Pennsylvania’s strong competitive disadvantages under those product categories showing the strong impact of foreign goods on the Pennsylvanian global balance sheet.
Pennsylvania’s Major Trade Partners
The following list shows the top 10 customers that purchased 66.3% worth of the total value of products exported from Pennsylvania during 2025.
- Canada: US$13.9 billion (26.6% of total Pennsylvanian exports)
- Mexico: $4.9 billion (9.4%)
- mainland China: $2.7 billion (5.1%)
- Netherlands: $2.5 billion (4.8%)
- Germany: $2.3 billion (4.5%)
- Belgium: $1.9 billion (3.7%)
- Japan: $1.8 billion (3.4%)
- United Kingdom: $1.7 billion (3.2%)
- India: $1.5 billion (2.9%)
- France: $1.4 billion (2.6%)
Pennsylvania’s top trade partners in North America–Canada and Mexico–accounted for 36% of the overall value of the state’s exported goods.
That percentage compares to 13.9% bought by Asia’s leading importers (mainland China, Japan and Singapore) of Pennsylvanian exports.
Another 18.9% worth went to Pennsylvania’s biggest customers in Europe. The major European customers buying Pennsylvanian exports were the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom and France.
Exports from Pennsylvania from top buyers in Asia (mainland China, Japan and India) amounted to 11.5%.
Pennsylvanian Export Companies
Forty-six of Pennsylvania-headquartered corporations rank among Fortune 1000 Companies, a list that includes America’s largest businesses. Selected examples are shown below.
- Armstrong World Industries (walls, ceilings)
- Carpenter Technology Corp (stainless steel, alloys)
- Dentsply Sirona (dental supplies, equipment)
- EnerSys (batteries)
- EQT Corp (petroleum, natural gas)
- GNC (vitamins, other health-related foods)
- Kennametal (tools, industrial materials)
- Unisys Corp (IT software, technology, services)
- United Refining Company (petroleum, gasoline)
- Vishay Intertechnology (electronic components, semiconductors)
Shown within brackets for each company is a summary of the international trade-related products or services which each business sells.
Pennsylvania’s capital is Harrisburg, a city literally nicknamed “Pennsylvania’s Capital City”.
See also Oklahoma’s Top 10 Exports, Alaska’s Top 10 Exports, Top 10 Exports from Massachusetts, Louisiana’s Top 10 Exports and Virginia’s Top 10 Exports
Research Sources:
FlagPictures.org, Flags of US States. Accessed on May 25, 2026
Forbes, 2016 Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on May 25, 2026
GeoLounge, Fortune 1000 Companies List, Fortune 1000 by State and Place. Accessed on May 25, 2026
IBIS World, Real gross domestic product of Pennsylvania. Accessed on May 25, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on May 25, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on May 25, 2026
United States Census Bureau, QuickFacts: Pennsylvania. Accessed on May 25, 2026
USA Trade Online, Official Source of Trade Statistics. Accessed on May 25, 2026
Wikipedia, Category:Companies based in Pennsylvania. Accessed on May 25, 2026
Wikipedia, List of U.S. states and territories by GDP. Accessed on May 25, 2026
Wikipedia, Pennsylvania. Accessed on May 25, 2026
YCharts, Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Report. Accessed on May 25, 2026
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