Oregon, Florida, Utah, New Hampshire see largest export dollar increase, TechAmerica trade group says
When it comes to exporting high-tech goods, 36 states saw more money this year with Oregon, Florida, Utah, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania seeing the largest amounts. California was the leading high-tech export state with $49.3 billion in exports in 2008, followed by Texas with $39.8 billion.
These were some of the more interesting results from the third annual Trade in the Cyberstates report by the TechAmerica trade association today which found that Vermont had the highest concentration of tech exports — 70% of its exports were high-tech related.
The group also found that:
- While California was the leading high-tech export state with $49.3 billion in exports in 2008, down almost six percent or $3.0 billion from 2007.
- Texas’s high-tech exports totaled $39.8 billion in 2008, up 0.3% or $117 million from 2007, as it remained the nation’s second largest state by total tech exports.
- The fastest growing cyberstates on a percentage basis from 2007 to 2008 were Montana, Utah, the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, and Louisiana.
- California was the leading exporter of computers and peripheral equipment, consumer electronics, semiconductors, industrial electronics, electromedical equipment, and photonics.
- Texas was the leading exporter of communications equipment and electronic
- components.
- Tennessee was the second largest exporter of electromedical equipment, after California, and Florida was the second largest exporter of photonics, after California as well.
- The nation’s leading cyberstates by high-tech exports in 2008 were California, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, and New York. Massachusetts jumped over New York to claim the fourth place spot.
The report is a partner to TechAmerica Foundation’s annual flagship publications, Cyberstates and Cybercities, which examine the high-tech industry in the national, state, and metropolitan arenas.
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