Facts & Figures

Trade supported 91,600 jobs in Vermont in 2008, or 21.1% of total jobs, up from 10.5% in 1992.¹
Over one-quarter (28.8%) of all manufacturing workers in Vermont depended on exports for their jobs.²
In 2008, 10,500 people in Vermont were employed by U.S. affiliates of companies that are at least 50% foreign-owned.³

Vermont exported $3.2 billion in merchandise to 10,045 foreign markets in 2009. Vermont’s largest market in 2009 was Canada ($1.5 billion), followed by Hong Kong ($258 billion), China ($221 million), Malaysia ($184 million), and Japan ($181 million).⁴
In 2008, 976 companies exported goods from Vermont. Of these, 89% were small- and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
Agricultural exports are important to New England’s economy, totaling $711 million and supporting about 8,235 jobs in 2008.⁵
Since 2007, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has financed $9 million in exports from 8 companies in 5 communities in Vermont.⁶

In 2008–2009, 1,942 Vermont students studied abroad, a 5.7% increase over the previous academic year.⁷
During 2009–2010, 1,017 international students were enrolled in Vermont colleges and universities and contributed $34.1 million to the Vermont economy.⁸

Since 1961, 1,351 Peace Corps volunteers from Vermont have served in dozens of countries overseas.⁹
Support from U.S. government grants and contracts to private voluntary organizations engaged in foreign assistance and development in Vermont totaled over $66 million in 2008.¹⁰

http://businessroundtable.org/uploads/studies-reports/downloads/Trade_and_American_Jobs.pdf
http://www.trade.gov/mas/ian/statereports/
http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2010/11%20November/1110_us_ops.pdf
http://www.trade.gov/mas/ian/statereports
http://www.fas.usda.gov/info/factsheets/WTO/states.html
https://webappsprod01.exim.gov/apps/usmap/usmap.nsf
http://www.iie.org/en/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/Data/Fact-Sheets-by-US-State
http://www.nafsa.org/publicpolicy/default.aspx?id=23158
http://multimedia.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/homestates.pdf
http://www.pvo.net/usaid