Florida Seventh-Largest Exporter of State-Origin Products

Submitted by Anonymous on April 7, 2015 - 4:59pm

The Sunshine State is the seventh largest exporter of state-origin products, according to numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Florida-origin exports totaled nearly $59 billion and supported close to 275,000 U.S. jobs in 2013.

The state's international business and foreign direct investment account for approximately 17 percent of Florida's economic activity and directly support more than 1 million jobs in the Sunshine State.

Florida has come a long way in building international economic development efforts, but our work is far from over, saidDoug Davidson, market executive of Global Commercial Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.At Bank of America, we support the Florida Chamber Foundations research in trade and logistics because we know that Floridas future lies in being globally competitive.

Florida's top trade partners are Brazil and Canada, but other nations like Peru, the United Arab Emirates and Germany also make Florida's top 10 importers list.

When oil exports are excluded, Florida is the No. 1 exporter to Central and South America, with Florida exporting more than $30 billion in goods to that region in 2014.

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