Missouri's exports expected to set record

Through June 2006, Missouri exports topped $6 billion, compared to just more than $5 billion after second-quarter 2005.

The numbers are good news for Missouri’s businesses in that the state set an exports record in 2005 with $10.5 billion in total global sales. This year’s second-quarter numbers put the state on track to top the record this year.

Missouri had 12 product categories that topped $100 million in export sales in the second quarter of 2006, with transportation equipment topping the list at $2.2 billion.

Other categories were: chemicals, $998.5 million; machinery, $567.5 million; food and kindred products, $345 million; electrical equipment, appliances and components, $286.1 million; computers and electronic products, $252.4 million; fabricated metal products, $207 million; waste and scrap, $158.5 million; minerals and ores, $143 million; primary metal manufacturing, $139.9 million; plastics and rubber products, $115.1 million; and agricultural products, $106.7 million.

This story originally appeared in SBJ’s Sept. 21 free e-news Daily Update. Click here to register.