Utah’s TOP EXPORT is…

There was a time when every state was known for one thing.

Pennsylvania, coal.

Iowa, corn.

Nebraska, corn.

Illinois, Michael Jordan.

Kansas, corn.

Well, nowadays our understanding of states has a little bit more depth.

Utah is obviously known for being a beautiful state full of hot people, but more importantly it's a state that exports a good amount of important material. Let's take a look at what that is.

Per the Observatory of Economic Complexity: (full link)

"In 2022, United States' Utah exported $16.5B, making it the 28th largest exporter out of the 53 exporters in United States."

In 2022 the top exports of Utah were:

1. Gold in unwrought forms non-monetary ($6.97B)

I would have had no idea gold was such a huge export in the Beehive state.

2. Needles, catheters, cannulae etc, (medical) ($554M)

Yowza.

3. Food preparations nes ($519M)

4. Other Aircraft parts ($401M)

5. Frozen Boneless Beef Cuts ($264M)

Those are the top five.

The top places that Utah is exporting to are

"In September 2023, Utah exported mostly to United Kingdom ($810M), Canada ($134M), Mexico ($94.5M), China ($93.4M), and Japan ($87.6M), and imported mostly from Mexico ($397M), Canada ($219M), Taiwan ($188M), China ($186M), and Vietnam ($76.2M)."

This is fantastic information worthy of more articles. Let me just say to the good people in Utah who make all this stuff: you are the heroes that make the world turn, not the pencil pushers or the Instagram influencers, but whoever is in charge of generating all of this exportable product that propels our economy forward.