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Top 10 Exports from Georgia State

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Georgia’s Top 10 Exports
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Nicknamed the “Peach State” or “Empire State of the South” and situated in America’s Southeastern region, Georgia shipped US$53.4 billion worth of exported products around the globe in 2024.

That dollar amount results from a 26% increase from $42.4 billion four years earlier in 2021.

Year over year, the overall value for State of Georgian exports rose 7.1% compared to $49.9 billion during 2023.

Georgia ranks twelfth among America’s biggest exporters by state behind front-runners including Texas, California, New York state, Louisiana and Illinois.

The value of Georgia’s exports equals 2.6% of the United States’ overall exported products for 2024, up from 2.5% one year earlier.

Georgia state’s exported products represent 6.1% of the state’s total economic output or nominal Gross Domestic Product at 2024 prices ($882.5 billion).

Given Georgia’s population of 11.2 million people, its total US$53.4 billion in 2024 exports translates to roughly $4,800 for every resident in the Peach State. That dollar metric exceeds the average $4,500 per capita for 2023.

Georgia’s unemployment rate was 3.4% at the end of September 2025, down from 3.6% one year earlier per YCharts.

Georgia’s Top 10 Exports

The following export products represent the highest dollar value in Georgia global shipments during 2024. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Georgia.

Figures are shown at the more granular six-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, for more precise product identification.

  1. Civilian aircraft, engines and parts: US$10 billion (18.6% of total New Hampshirite exports)
  2. Mid-sized automobiles (piston engine): $1.6 billion (2.9%)
  3. Modems, similar reception/transmission devices: $1.5 billion (2.8%)
  4. Miscellaneous digital processing units: $1.5 billion (2.7%)
  5. Chemical woodpulp (coniferous): $1.3 billion (2.3%)
  6. Gas turbine parts: $1.2 billion (2.2%)
  7. High-thrust turbo-jets: $1.1 billion (2.1%)
  8. Frozen poultry (cuts, offal): $1 billion (1.9%)
  9. Cotton (uncarded, uncombed): $872.7 million (1.6%)
  10. Kraftliner paper (uncoated/unbleached): $776.4 million (1.5%)

Georgia’s top 10 exports represent 38.8% of the overall value of the state’s global shipments.

Modems plus similar reception or transmission devices represent the fastest grower among Georgia State’s top 10 export categories, thanks to its 78% acceleration from 2023 to 2024.

In second place were Georgian exports of miscellaneous digital processing units via a 64% advance, ahead of Georgia State’s exports of parts for gas turbine parts (up 37.4%).

The severest decliners among Georgia’s major export categories were frozen poultry cuts and offal (down -24% from 2023) and uncarded and uncombed cotton (also down -24%).

More Key Facts about Georgia State’s International Trade

Georgia incurred an overall -US$92.2 billion deficit exporting and importing products during 2024. That dollar amount results from a 5.9% expansion compared to the -$87 billion in red ink in 2023.

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 Georgia’s top 10 import products highlighting the state’s highest spending on foreign-made goods in 2024.

  1. Mid-sized automobiles (piston engine): US$8.9 billion (6.1% of total Georgian imports)
  2. Immunological products in measured doses: $5.8 billion (4%)
  3. Modems, similar reception/transmission devices: $4.1 billion (2.8%)
  4. Miscellaneous digital processing units: $3.9 billion (2.7%)
  5. Large automobiles (piston engine): $2.8 billion (1.9%)
  6. Miscellaneous food preparations: $2.33 billion (1.6%)
  7. High-thrust turbo-jets: $2.31 billion (1.6%)
  8. Refined copper cathodes: $2.26 billion (1.6%)
  9. Large aircraft: $2.23 billion (1.5%)
  10. Self-propelled works trucks, forklifts: $1.7 billion (1.2%)

Georgia State incurred negative net exports in the international trade of automobiles, particularly mid-sized and larger vehicles. In turn, these cashflows indicate Georgia’s competitive disadvantages under the vehicles-related categories showing the strong impact of foreign-made automotive goods on the Georgian global balance sheet.

Georgia State’s Major Trading Partners

The following list shows the top 10 customers that purchased 57.2% worth of the total value of products exported from Georgia during 2024.

  1. Canada: US$7.8 billion (14.5% of total Georgian exports)
  2. Mexico: $6.4 billion (11.9%)
  3. mainland China: $3.1 billion (5.7%)
  4. Netherlands: $2.6 billion (4.9%)
  5. Germany: $2.5 billion (4.6%)
  6. Singapore: $2.4 billion (4.6%)
  7. Japan: $1.6 billion (3.1%)
  8. United Kingdom: $1.5 billion (2.7%)
  9. United Arab Emirates: $1.4 billion (2.6%)
  10. Poland: $1.3 billion (2.5%)

Georgia’s top trade partners in North America–Canada and Mexico–accounted for over a quarter (26.5%) of the overall value of exported goods from the Peach State.

The North American percentage compares with the 16% share for Georgian products exported to top Asian importing countries (mainland China, Singapore, Japan plus the United Arab Emirates).

Another 14.7% was sent to leading importers of Georgian products located in Europe (Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and Poland).

State of Georgia’s Export Companies

Thirty corporations based in the state of Georgia rank among Fortune 1000 Companies, a list that showcases America’s largest businesses. Selected examples are shown below.

  • Acuity Brands (lighting, specialty chemicals)
  • AGCO Corp (agricultural equipment)
  • Axiall Corp (chlorovinyls, aromatics)
  • Carter’s (children’s clothing)
  • Flowers Foods (bread, other packaged bakery foods)
  • Genuine Parts Company (replacement parts, electrical materials)
  • Graphic Packaging Holding Co (commercial products packaging)
  • HD Supply Holdings (industrial goods)
  • Mohawk Industries (flooring products)
  • NCR Corp (electronics, computer hardware, software)

Shown within brackets for each company is a summary of the international trade-related products which each business sells.
 

Georgia’s state capital is Atlanta, a city nicknamed “The A” or “Hotlanta”.

See also Ohio’s Top 10 Exports, Alabama’s Top 10 Exports, Florida’s Top 10 Exports, Louisiana’s Top 10 Exports and Tennessee’s Top 10 Exports

Research Sources:
FlagPictures.org, Flags of US States. Accessed on January 18, 2026

Forbes, Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on January 18, 2026

GeoLounge, Fortune 1000 Companies List, Fortune 1000 by State and Place. Accessed on January 18, 2026

IBIS World, Georgia Economic Overview (GDP, population). Accessed on January 18, 2026

International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on January 18, 2026

Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on January 18, 2026

United States Census Bureau, QuickFacts: Georgia. Accessed on January 18, 2026

USA Trade Online, Official Source of Trade Statistics. Accessed on January 18, 2026

Wikipedia, Georgia (U.S. state). Accessed on January 18, 2026

Wikipedia, List of Georgia (U.S. state) companies. Accessed on January 18, 2026

Wikipedia, List of U.S. states and territories by GDP. Accessed on January 18, 2026

YCharts, Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Report. Accessed on January 18, 2026