That dollar amount results from a 35% year-over-year increase from $16.6 billion for 2024.
Over a 4-year time horizon, the overall value of Utahn exports accelerated via a 22.8% uptick compared to $18.2 billion during 2022.
Utah ranks as America’s 24th biggest exporters by state behind front-runners including Texas, California, New York state, Louisiana and Illinois.
The value of Utah’s exports equals 1% of the United States’ overall exported products in 2025 ($2.178), up from 1% for 2024.
Utah’s exported products represent 6.1% of the state’s total economic output or nominal Gross Domestic Product in 2025 ($300.9 billion).
Given Utah’s population of 3.55 million people, its total US$22.4 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $6,300 for every resident in the Beehive State. That dollar metric surpasses the average $5,200 per capita one year earlier during 2024.
Utah’s unemployment rate was 3.5% at the end of July 2025, same as one year earlier per YCharts.
Utah’s Top 10 Exports
The following export products represent the highest dollar value in Utah global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Utah.
Figures are shown at the more granular six-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, for more precise product identification.
- Gold (unwrought): US$8.3 billion (37.1% of total Utahn exports)
- Miscellaneous items with precious metals: $2.1 billion (9.6%)
- Computer parts, accessories: $1.5 billion (6.6%)
- Civilian aircraft full or aircraft engines, other parts: $974.1 million (4.4%)
- Medical needles, catheters: $528.5 million (2.4%)
- Miscellaneous food preparations: $460.8 million (2.1%)
- Silver (unwrought): $356.7 million (1.6%)
- Surgical, dental or veterinarian instruments: $309.6 million (1.4%)
- Safety airbags with inflator system: $291.5 million (1.3%)
- Integrated circuits (processors, controllers): $262.6 million (1.2%)
Utah’s top 10 exports generated over two-thirds (67.4%) of the overall value of the state’s global shipments.
Miscellaneous items with precious metals represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 79,150% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place for improving export sales was unwrought silver thanks to that category’s 1,812% spike.
Utah’s shipments of computer parts or accessories posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 633.1%.
Year over year, the severest percentage decliners among Utah’s top 10 export products were surgical, dental or veterinarian instruments via a -7.1% year over year drop.
Other decliners were exports of processors and controllers for electronic integrated circuits (down -6.7% from 2024) and miscellaneous food preparations (down -1.9%).
More Key Facts about Utah’s International Trade
Utah recorded an overall -US$6.25 billion deficit exporting and importing products during 2025, expanding by 70.7% from -$3.66 billion 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.
Below are Utah’s top 10 import products highlighting the state’s highest spending on foreign-sourced goods in 2025.
- Computer parts, accessories: US$4.7 billion (16.4% of total Iowan imports)
- Gold (unwrought): $4.5 billion (15.9%)
- Voice, image, data machinery: $2.3 billion (7.9%)
- Silver (unwrought): $1 billion (3.6%)
- Artificial joints, parts: $718.7 million (2.5%)
- Computer storage units: $615.4 million (2.1%)
- Computer processing units: $551.7 million (1.9%)
- Lithium ion batteries: $540.5 million (1.9%)
- Live cattle (not purebred): $504.9 million (1.8%)
- Safety airbags with inflator system: $495.2 million (1.7%)
Historically, Utah has negative net exports notably in the international trade of modems plus similar reception or transmission devices, raw silver, and artificial joints or other body parts. In turn, these cashflows indicate Utah’s competitive disadvantages under those product categories.
Utah’s Major Trading Partners
The following list shows the top 10 customers that purchased over four-fifths (82.5%) worth of the total value of products exported from Utah during 2025.
- United Kingdom: US$10.8 billion (48.1% of total Utahn exports)
- Mexico: $2 billion (8.7%)
- Canada: $1.5 billion (6.8%)
- mainland China: $921.8 million (4.1%)
- Ireland: $838.5 million (3.7%)
- Japan: $629.2 million (2.8%)
- Brazil: $532.4 million (2.4%)
- Netherlands: $517.7 million (2.3%)
- Germany: $419.5 million (1.9%)
- South Korea: $387.3 million (1.7%)
Utah’s top trade partners in Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands and Germany) bought over half (56%) of the overall value of exported goods from the Beehive State.
In contrast, 15.5% of Utahn exports were bought by fellow North American trading partners Mexico and Canada.
Leading Asian importers (mainland China, Japan and South Korea) purchased 8.7% of overall exported products sold by Utah in 2025.
Utah’s Export Companies
Four Utah-based corporations rank among Fortune 1000 Companies, a list that showcases America’s largest businesses. These examples are listed below.
- Nu Skin Enterprises (personal care items, dietary supplements)
- SkyWest Airlines (regional airliner)
- Vista Outdoor (outdoor sports/recreation products)
- Zions Bancorporation (bank holding company)
Shown within brackets for each company is a summary of the products or services which each business sells, some of which are international trade-related.
Utah’s capital is Salt Lake City, a city nicknamed “The Crossroads of the West”.
See also Florida’s Top 10 Exports, California’s Top 10 Exports, Top 10 Exports from Texas and Maine’s Top 10 Exports
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