Each of Missouri’s eight metropolitan areas exported goods internationally in 2020, according to data recently released by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Exports included goods from plastics and rubber products manufacturing from the Cape Girardeau, MO-IL MSA to chemical manufacturing products from the St. Joseph, MO-KS MSA. Industry and trade partner details are now available for the Cape Girardeau, Columbia, Jefferson City, Joplin, Kansas City, Springfield, St. Joseph, and St. Louis MSAs. Click on the links to see detailed dashboards for data.
Missouri Metro Industry Exports and Trade Partners
Missouri Metro Exports 2005 to 2020
US Metro Exports - 2020
***Methodology:
Describes the Origin of Movement-ZIP code Based methodology that is used to calculate goods exports from U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs).
All state and metro area export values released in the Metropolitan Export Series and related reports are from the U.S. Census Bureau's Origin of Movement–ZIP code Based Series (OM-ZIP). This series, which the Census Bureau reintroduced in 2006, allocates exports to states and localities based on the address of the United States Principal Party in Interest (USPPI) of record.
The USPPI of record is not necessarily the entity that produced the merchandise; hence, the series does not furnish complete and reliable data on the production origin of U.S. exports, as explained below.
The USPPI of record, as determined from the electronic export information entered into the Automated Export System, is the person or legal entity in the United States that receives the primary benefit, monetary or otherwise, from the export transaction. Generally, that person or entity is the U.S. seller, manufacturer, or order party, or the foreign entity while in the United States when purchasing or obtaining the goods for export.
The OM-ZIP series can track export sales of states, metropolitan areas, and ZIP codes (at the three-digit level). Statistics are available for exports of merchandise only. No sub-national data currently exist on exports of services. A state import series measures goods imports down to a state level. However, the zip code information needed to track the imports at a metropolitan area level is not collected at this time.
Data users should be aware that all sub-national export statistics in the state data series are based on initial data compiled from U.S. export declarations. Subsequent revisions by the Census Bureau (e.g., carryover and annual revisions) are not reflected in the numbers.
