About Global Reach

The level of international trade—in both exports and imports—is a robust measure of the region’s competitiveness in the production, movement and distribution of consumer durable and non-durable goods. Both firms and regional governments focus considerable effort at improving ties with foreign firms, but for different reasons. Governments seek foreign investment in plant and equipment, while firms care about supplier relationships on both commodities and finished goods. Of course, manufacturers want to make goods with a global market appeal. How well this is done is an important predictor of the health of state manufacturing and logistics sectors into the future.

To measure global reach, we include the export-related measures of per capita exported manufacturing goods, the growth of manufacturing exports, and the foreign direct investment measures of the amount of manufacturing income received annually from foreign-owned firms in a state, the level of adaptability of the state’s exporters to changing demand, as well as the reach of foreign direct investment.

Sources: U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration and Bureau of Economic Analysis.

2020 Global Reach

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State	Grade
Alabama	C
Alaska	F
Arizona	C
Arkansas	D
California	C
Colorado	D-
Connecticut	A
Delaware	A
Florida	D
Georgia	C
Hawaii	F
Idaho	F
Illinois	C+
Indiana	B+
Iowa	C-
Kansas	C+
Kentucky	A
Louisiana	C
Maine	F
Maryland	D+
Massachusetts	B
Michigan	B
Minnesota	B-
Mississippi	C
Missouri	C-
Montana	D
Nebraska	D+
Nevada	C-
New Hampshire	B
New Jersey	C
New Mexico	C-
New York	D
North Carolina	C+
North Dakota	D
Ohio	B
Oklahoma	C-
Oregon	B
Pennsylvania	C
Rhode Island	F
South Carolina	A
South Dakota	D
Tennessee	B-
Texas	A
Utah	B
Vermont	B+
Virginia	D-
Washington	C
West Virginia	C
Wisconsin	C
Wyoming	C

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