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Vermont state flagNicknamed “The Green Mountain State” located in America’s northeastern region, Vermont shipped US$2.1 billion worth of goods around the world in 2025.
That dollar amount reflects a -17.8% decline from $2.5 billion four years earlier during 2022.
Year over year, the overall value of Vermont’s exports advanced by 8.9% compared to $1.9 billion for 2024.
Vermont ranks as America’s 4th smallest exporter by state ahead of Wyoming, South Dakota and Hawaii.
The value of Vermont’s exports equals 0.1% of the United States’ overall exported products for 2025, same percentage as the year earlier.
Vermont’s exported products represent 4.3% of the state’s total economic output or nominal Gross Domestic Product in 2025 ($48.4 billion). That percentage is an improvement from 4.1% during 2024.
Given Vermont’s population of 645,000 people, its total US$2.1 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $3,200 for every resident in the Green Mountain State. That dollar metric surpasses the average $2,900 per capita in 2024.
Vermont’s unemployment rate was 2.6% at the end of July 2026, same as the average 2.6% one year earlier per YCharts.
The following export products represent the highest dollar value in Vermont global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Vermont.
Figures are shown at the more granular six-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, for more precise product identification.
- Civilian aircraft, aircraft engines or other parts: US$260.5 million (12.7% of Vermont’s total exports)
- Miscellaneous integrated circuits: $248.7 million (12.1%)
- Integrated circuits (processors, controllers): $118.6 million (5.8%)
- Chocolate preparations in blocks: $95.5 million (4.6%)
- Integrated circuits for amplifiers: $90 million (4.4%)
- Physical exercise equipment: $88 million (4.3%)
- Clay-coated paper, paperboard: $58.7 million (2.8%)
- Parts for machinery to work rubber or plastics: $48.1 million (2.3%)
- Miscellaneous items made from plastic: $34 million (1.7%)
- Chocolate preparations not in bulk form: $32.6 million (1.6%)
Vermont’s top 10 exports were worth over half (52.2%) of the overall value of the state’s global shipments.
The strongest gainer among Vermont’s top 10 export categories was for civilian aircraft, either fully assembled or aircraft engines or other parts, via a 233.1% advance from 2024.
Other significant increases belonged to Vermonter international sales of chocolate preparations not in bulk form (up 87.3%), integrated circuits for amplifiers (up 49.4%) then miscellaneous chocolate preparations in relatively large blocks (up 48.8%).
Percentage decliners among Vermont’s top 10 export products were processors or controllers for integrated circuits (down -22.1% from 2024) and miscellaneous electronic integrated circuits (down -20.9%).
More Key Facts about Vermont’s International Trade
Vermont incurred an overall -US$1.9 billion trade deficit exporting and importing products during 2025. That dollar amount reflects an 18% expansion from -$1.62 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.
All told, goods imported into Vermont totaled US$3.96 billion in the latest reporting period.
Below are Vermont’s top 10 import products highlighting the state’s highest spending on foreign-made goods in 2025.
- Chocolate preparations in blocks: US$594.2 million (15% of Vermont’s total imports)
- Electrical energy: $335.5 million (8.5%)
- Jewelry made with silver, parts: $212.4 million (5.4%)
- Processed petroleum oils (not biodiesel): $187 million (4.7%)
- Light petroleum oils (not biodiesel): $156.3 million (3.9%)
- High-thrust turbo-jets: $150.6 million (3.8%)
- Lifting, handling, loading machinery: $105.4 million (2.7%)
- Liquified propane: $90.6 million (2.3%)
- Natural gas (gaseous state): $78 million (2%)
- Turbojet or turbopropeller parts: $72 million (1.8%)
Vermont has negative net exports in the international trade of commodities such as chocolate preparations, electrical energy and petroleum oils. In turn, these cashflows indicate Vermont’s competitive disadvantages under these product categories.
Vermont’s Major Trade Partners
The following list shows the top 10 customers that purchased about four-fifths (78.9%) worth of the total value of products exported from Vermont during 2025.
- Canada: US$635.4 million (30.9% of Vermont’s total exports)
- Taiwan: $267.6 million (13%)
- Germany: $256.8 million (12.5%)
- mainland China: $115.2 million (5.6%)
- Netherlands: $80.2 million (3.9%)
- Mexico: $70.1 million (3.4%)
- United Kingdom: $57.5 million (2.8%)
- Hong Kong: $51.7 million (2.5%)
- Singapore: $47.6 million (2.3%)
- Ireland: $43.5 million (2.1%)
Vermont’s top trade partners in North America (Canada and Mexico) bought 34.3% of the overall value of export sales from the Green Mountain State.
That percentage compares to 23.4% for top importers in Asia (Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore) and 21.3% for Vermont’s leading trade partners in Europe (Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ireland).
Vermonter Export Companies
Just one among all Vermont-based corporations rank among Fortune 1000 Companies, a list that showcases America’s largest businesses.
That company is Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.–a specialty coffee and coffee maker business that was previously called Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
In addition to coffee-related products, Keurig Green Mountain also sells tea, cocoa and K-Cup pods on domestic as well as international markets.
Vermont’s capital is Montpelier, America’s smallest city in terms of population that serves as state capital.
See also North Dakota’s Top 10 Exports, Montana’s Top 10 Exports, Wisconsin’s Top 10 Exports, Arizona’s Top 10 Exports and Maryland’s Top 10 Exports
Research Sources:
FlagPictures.org, Flags of US States. Accessed on September 16, 2026
Forbes, 2021 Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on September 16, 2026
GeoLounge, Fortune 1000 Companies List, Fortune 1000 by State and Place. Accessed on September 16, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on September 16, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on September 16, 2026
State Symbols USA, State Nicknames. Accessed on September 16, 2026
Statista, Real gross domestic product of Vermont. Accessed on September 16, 2026
United States Census Bureau, QuickFacts: Vermont. Accessed on September 16, 2026
USA Trade Online, Official Source of Trade Statistics. Accessed on September 16, 2026
Wikipedia, Category:Companies based in Vermont. Accessed on September 16, 2026
Wikipedia, List of U.S. states and territories by GDP. Accessed on September 16, 2026
Wikipedia, Vermont. Accessed on September 16, 2026
YCharts, Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Report. Accessed on September 16, 2026


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