{"id":439995,"date":"2026-01-31T02:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:10:27","slug":"minnesota-exports-drop-14-in-third-quarter-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439995\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Exports Drop 14% In Third Quarter Of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL (<a href=\"https:\/\/wjon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WJON News<\/a>) &#8212;\u00a0Minnesota&#8217;s exports dropped for a third straight quarter.\u00a0 The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development released <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/deed\/data\/economic-analysis\/export-stats\/current-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the export numbers for the third quarter of 2025 on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/attachment-wjonam-alexacard-big.jpg\" alt=\"AM 1240 WJON logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Exports totaled $5.7 billion, down 14 percent from the same period the year before.\u00a0 Exports were down for all four of Minnesota&#8217;s biggest trading partners, with Canada down 32 percent, Mexico down 15 percent, China down 24 percent, and Japan down 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>DEED says weaker sales exports of agricultural, mining, and manufactured goods drove the losses. There were also declines in categories like machinery and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>But, there was some good news in the report, with sales to Europe up 7 percent, the Middle East up 11 percent, and Africa up 6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Other 3rd quarter numbers in the Midwest:<br \/>North Dakota up 31%<br \/>Iowa up 1%<br \/>Nebraska down 2%<br \/>Wisconsin down 3%<br \/>Illinois down 8%<br \/>South Dakota down 17%<\/p>\n<p>Minnesotans who played for the Vikings\/in NFL<\/p>\n<p>Native Minnesotans who played for their home state Vikings in the NFL, and Central Minnesotans who played in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Paul Habstritt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL (WJON News) &#8212;\u00a0Minnesota&#8217;s exports dropped for a third straight quarter.\u00a0 The Minnesota Department of Employment and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,24965,4910,27949],"class_list":["post-439995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-from-the-wjon-newsroom","tag-newsletter","tag-state-regional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}