????????????????????????For the fourth consecutive year, the United States set a new record for exports. U.S. exports reached $2.3 trillion in 2013.

Find out if your state is one of the top 10 exporting states in the nation:

1. Texas: $279.7 billion in petroleum products, computer and electronic products, chemicals, machinery manufactures, and transportation equipment

2. California: $168.1 billion in computer and electronic products, transportation equipment, machinery manufactures, miscellaneous manufactures, and agricultural products

3. Washington: $81.9 billion in transportation equipment, agricultural products, petroleum products, computer and electronic products, and food and kindred products

4. Louisiana: $64.1 billion in petroleum products, agricultural products, chemicals, food and kindred products, and machinery manufactures

5. Michigan: $58.5 billion in transportation equipment, machinery manufactures, chemicals, computer and electronic products, and primary metal manufactures

6. Ohio: $50.5 billion in transportation equipment, machinery manufactures, chemicals, computers and electronic products, and fabricated metal products

7. Georgia: $37.6 billion in transportation equipment, machinery manufactures, chemicals, paper, and food and kindred products

8. Tennessee: $32.4 billion in transportation equipment, chemicals, computer and electronic products, miscellaneous manufactures, and machinery manufactures

9. North Carolina: $29.3 billion in chemicals, machinery manufactures, transportation equipment, computer and electronic products, and textiles

10. South Carolina: $26.1 billion in transportation equipment, machinery manufactures, chemicals, plastics, and paper

Find out how to get started in the export business by contacting Walker World Trade. Walker has been an expert in the field since 1936.