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Michigan: Exports, Jobs, and Foreign Investment
January 2010
Exports Support Jobs for Michigan's Workers
Exports Sustain Thousands of Michigan
Businesses
Foreign Investment Benefits Michigan
Michigan Depends on World Markets
Michigan's Metropolitan Exports
Exports Support Jobs for Michigan's Workers
Export-supported jobs linked to manufacturing account for an
estimated 6.4 percent of Michigan's total private-sector employment.
Nearly one-quarter (24.5 percent) of all manufacturing workers in
Michigan depend on exports for their jobs. (2006 data are the latest
available.)
Note: Export-related employment data shown do not include manufacturing and
non-manufacturing jobs involved in the export of non-manufactured goods, such as
farm products, minerals, and services sold to foreign buyers. Indirect exports
exclude imported items. The complete 2006 export-related employment series is
available on our Export Related Jobs pages. Additional information on
methodology used in the export-related employment series can be found in the U.S.
Census Bureau's publication Exports from Manufacturing Establishments: 2006.
Source: State Export-Related Employment Project, International Trade
Administration and Bureau of the Census.
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Exports Sustain Thousands of Michigan Businesses
A total of 11,205 companies exported goods from Michigan locations
in 2007. Of those, 10,057 (90 percent) were small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs), with fewer than 500 employees.
SMEs generated 12 percent of Michigan's total exports of
merchandise in 2007.
Source: International Trade Administration and Bureau of the Census, Foreign
Trade Division: Exporter Database.
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Foreign Investment Creates Jobs in Michigan
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In 2007, foreign-controlled companies employed 150,400 Michigan
workers. Major sources of Michigan's foreign investment in 2007
included Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France.
Nearly two-fifths of these jobs (37 percent, or 55,900 workers) were
in the manufacturing sector in 2007.
Nearly one of every eleven manufacturing workers (8.9 percent) were
employed by foreign-controlled companies in 2007.
Foreign investment in Michigan was responsible for 4.1 percent of
the state's total private-industry employment in 2007.
Note: All figures exclude employment in banks affiliated with foreign companies.
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Michigan Depends on World Markets
Michigan's export shipments of merchandise in 2008 totaled $45.1
billion, placing Michigan eighth among the states in this category.
From 2004 to 2008, merchandise exports from Michigan increased
$9.2 billion, the 11th largest dollar growth in exports among the 50
states.
The state's largest foreign market, by far, in 2008 was Canada, which
received exports of $24.1 billion, or 53 percent of the Michigan total.
Canada was followed by Mexico ($6.4 billion), Germany ($1.6
billion), Japan ($1.4 billion), and China ($1.3 billion).
Michigan's leading export category, by far, is transportation
equipment, which alone accounted for 47 percent, or $21.1 billion, of
Michigan's exports in 2008. Other top export categories were
machinery manufactures ($4.2 billion in 2008), chemical
manufactures ($4.0 billion), and primary metal manufactures ($2.4
billion).
Source: Revised Origin of Movement State Export Series, Bureau of the Census,
Foreign Trade Division.
Caution: The Origin of Movement series allocates exports to states based on
transportation origin, i.e., the state from which goods began their journey to the
port (or other point) of exit from the United States. The transportation origin of
exports is not always the same as the location where the goods were produced.
Consequently, conclusions about "export production" in a state should not be made
solely on the basis of the Origin of Movement state export figures.
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Michigan's Metropolitan Exports
In the first half of 2008, the metropolitan area of Detroit-Warren-
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Livonia exported $23.1 billion in merchandise, 69 percent of
Michigan's total merchandise exports. Other major metropolitan areas
in Michigan that exported in the first half of 2008 included Grand
Rapids-Wyoming ($1.5 billion), Holland-Grand Haven ($812
million), Kalamazoo-Portage ($658 million), Ann Arbor ($594
million), Lansing-East Lansing ($587 million), and Saginaw-Saginaw
Township North ($568 million). Another metropolitan area exporter
that included some counties of Michigan was South Bend-Mishawaka
(including some counties in Indiana as well) which exported $581
million in merchandise in the first half of 2008.
Source: International Trade Administration and Bureau of the Census, Foreign
Trade Division: Metropolitan Export Series.
Caution: The Origin of Movement zip-based series allocates exports to
metropolitan areas based on transportation origin, i.e., the metropolitan area from
which goods began their journey to the port (or other point) of exit from the United
States. The transportation origin of exports is not always the same as the location
where the goods were produced. Consequently, conclusions about "export
production" in a metropolitan area should not be made solely on the basis of the
Origin of Movement zip-based export figures.
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Prepared by the Office of Trade and Industry Information, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
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