Texas: Price Movements of Top Nonenergy Exports
and Other Highlights
June 2017
www.bls.gov/mxp
Texas ranked first among U.S. states in total exports
with $232.6 billion in 2016, 6.3-percent lower than the
2015 total. Export prices for computer and electronic
products, Texas’s largest nonenergy export accoun ng
for 20.3 percent of the state’s total nonenergy export
dollars, increased for the 3-month period ended in
May. During the same period, chemical manufacturing
prices declined while prices for transporta on
equipment and nonelectrical machinery manufacturing
each rose 0.2 percent.
Top Six Texas Nonenergy Exports by Trade Dollar-Value, 2016
 Texas’s largest nonenergy export,
computer and electronic products
manufacturing, accounted for $47.2
billion in exports in 2016.
 Among U.S. states, Texas ranked first
in total exports with $232.6 billion in
2016 followed by California with
$163.6 billion and Washington with
$79.6 billion.
 The
top six nonenergy export
industries in Texas accounted for
63.1 percent ($146.7 billion) of the
state’s total export dollars in 2016.
U.S. Export Price Indexes: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
 Export
prices for computer and
electronic product manufacturing rose
0.2 percent for the 3-month period
ended in May, while manufacturing
export prices recorded no changed.
 Higher
prices for computer and
peripheral equipment, which rose 1.1
percent, drove the quarterly increase.
 Export
computer and electronic
product prices fell 1.3 percent over the
year ended in May.
Import/Export Price Indexes (MXP) and Texas Highlights
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U.S. Export Price Indexes: Chemical Manufacturing
 The
export price index for chemical
manufacturing decreased 0.5 percent for the
quarter ended in May.
Lower petroleum prices contributed to the quar-
terly fall in chemical manufacturing prices, dropping 5.2 percent. That was the largest 3-month
decline since a 15.3-percent decrease in March
2016.
The price index for chemical manufactur-
ing exports fell 1.1 percent over the 12
months ended in May.
U.S. Export Price Indexes: Nonelectrical Machinery Manufacturing
 Over the past 3 months, nonelectrical
machinery
manufacturing
prices rose 0.2 percent.
export
 Export
prices
for
nonelectrical
machinery manufacturing fell 0.5
percent for the year ended in May.
 Agriculture, construc on, and mining
machinery export prices, rose 0.3
percent which par ally offset other
nonelectrical machinery prices.
U.S. Export Price Indexes: Transporta on Equipment Manufacturing
 The price index advanced 0.2 percent
for the 3 months ended in May and 1.9
percent for the year ended in May.
 Con nued global demand for aerospace
products and parts drove the quarterly
advance in transporta on equipment
manufacturing prices.
 The 12-month rise matched the largest
advance since the index climbed 2.1
percent for the year ended December
2014.
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