Global Business Resources

To help companies locate high quality, relevant information about doing business globally, the World Trade Week Partner organizations have developed the following Global Business Resource Guide.

Resource Guide

The U.S. Commerce Department introduced a new data series that measures export values for metropolitan areas. The data series contains merchandise export values for 369 metropolitan areas. Service export values are not included in this series. Available for 2005 and 2006, this data also contains product exports to individual countries for the 50 largest metropolitan areas; top global export product categories; and total exports to ten regional destinations. In 2006, seven metropolitan areas posted merchandise export sales of $25 billion or more. The New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island metropolitan area ranked the highest with $66.2 in merchandise exports, followed by Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown with $53.3 billiion. The top country destinations for the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island metropolitan area in 2006 were Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel and Mexico.  In 2006, the top five global products exported by the New York metro area were manufactured commodities, chemicals, computer and electronic products, primary metal manufacturing and transportation equipment.  The top regional destinations were APEC countries and the European Union.

Ranking of Metropolitan Area Exporters

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New York - A Leading Services Exporter