Foreign investment in Texas was responsible for 5.8 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2015.Major sources of foreign investment in Texas included the United Kingdom, France and Japan. In 2015 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 596,900 Texas workers.International Investment Creates Jobs in Texas Texas’s exports (2018 value) to major world areas included: Mexico was followed by Canada ($27.5 billion), China ($16.6 billion), Korea ($13.1 billion), and Japan ($12.1 billion).Texas exported $109.7 billion in goods to Mexico in 2018, representing 35 percent of the state’s total goods exports. The state’s largest market was Mexico.Small and medium-sized firms generated 39.3 percent of Texas's total exports of goods in 2016.Of those, 36,590 (93 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees. A total of 39,482 companies exported from Texas locations in 2016 (latest year available).Other top manufacturing exports are computer & electronic products ($47.9 billion), chemicals ($46.2 billion), transportation equipment ($25.1 billion), and machinery, except electrical ($22.6 billion).Įxports Sustain Thousands of Texas Businesses many of which are SMEs.The state's largest manufacturing export category is petroleum & coal products, which accounted for $56.3 billion of Texas's total goods exports in 2018.Texas exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 866 thousand jobs in 2016.In 2018, Texas exported $248.1 billion of manufactured products.Made-in-America Manufacturing Exports from Texas and Jobs Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average. Texas goods exports in 2016 (latest year available) supported an estimated 910 thousand jobs.Goods exports accounted for 17.8 percent of Texas GDP in 2018.In 2018, Texas goods exports were $315.9 billion, an increase of 64 percent ($124 billion) from its export level in 2008.Texas was the largest state exporter of goods in 2018.In 2018, Texas exported a record $315.9 billion of Made-in-America goods to the world. In 2016, exports from Texas supported an estimated 910 thousand jobs.
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